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TUCKER GENEALOGY 



A RKCURI) OF 

(.ILHERT RUGGLP:S and EVELINA CHRISTINA (SNYDER) 

TUCKER 

•JHKIK ANXKSTORS AXI) DESCf:XDANTS 



BY 



TYLER SEYMOUR MORRIS 

AUTHOR OF 

The Morris Genealogy," ''A List of Genealogies," Etc. 



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To THK M1:M()KV ()!• 

(GILBERT RUGGLES TUCKER 

AND HIS WIFE, 

EVELINA CHRISTINA SNYDER 



EARLY MORNING AT PLYMOUTH 



Through grey mist tangled 'midst the wooded hills, 
A brown-winged warbler, flying as he sings, 
Stops o'er his grassy nest awhile, then fills 
The salty air with sweetness, till he brings 
Remembrances of vanished men and things. 

1 wait to hear him fill the silent vale, 
And know a soul has come again to earth. 
Listen ! Beneath his honeyed notes, a tale 
Of sorrow! 'Tis a Pilgrim's second birth; 
Old anguish makes rich concord with his mirth. 

Here where his heart pours ecstasies of song, 
Two centuries ago, he loved and died; 
Wandered with her the ocean-shore along, 
And watched with her the star-lit ebbing tide. 
Those lover-forms lie sleeping side by side. 

Here now he comes with her to nest again, 
And rear their birdlings near the self-same shore, — 
To know Love's joy of joys and heart of pain. 
Lovers immortal, having loved before, 
Somewhere a peace abides forever more. 

— Fr.vnk W . Gi.NSAi r.rs. 
To Mr. Seymour Morris. 



TUCKER. 



FIRST GENERATION. 



1. MORRIS 1 TUCKER of Salisbury, Mass., was married 
October 14, 1 66 r, to Elizabeth Stevens, (daughter of John* 
and Elizabeth Stevens,) who was born November 2, 1639. 
She died October 16, 1662. 

This is the first mention of the name of Morris Tucker, 
in the early records of Salisbury. 

His parentage, or date of birth, do not appear of rec- 
ord. There were several persons of the Tucker name, 
v/ho settled in New England prior to 1650, but the settle- 
ment of estates left by them leave no clue to the identity 
of Morris Tucker. 

In 1663, Morris Tucker married (second) Elizabeth* 
Gill [daughter of John and Phebe^ (Buswell) Gill], of Salis- 
bury ; she was born January 8, 1646. 

December 11, 1677, Morris Tucker took the oath of 
allegiance before Thomas Bradbury, Captain of the Salis- 
bury Militia, and was made freeman in 1690. His occupa- 
tion was that of a cooper. 

On January 5, 1663, William Huntington of Salisbury, 
Mass., deeded for £iS, to Morris Tucker, 30 acres of up- 
land near Cobler's Brook on the highway leading to Haver- 
hill. (See appendix "A" for copy of deed.) 

On July 29, 1668, he sold this same tract of land to 
John Gill, and described himself as a planter. (See appen- 
dix " B " for copy of deed. ) 

On February 7, 1693, he deeded to his son James 
Tucker, for i^io, a parcel of upland and swamp in Salis- 



Some of the descendants of Morris Tucker, of ^Salisbury, Mass. 
are given in Putnam's Historical Magazine, Salem, Mass., Jan. 1885. 

*One of the first settlers of the town, 1639. 



10 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

bury, near a place known as Munday Hill, which was 
granted to him by the commoners of Salisbury.* 

In 1692 Morris Tucker and his wife signed the petition 
in favor of Mary Bradbury, wife of Capt. Thomas Brad- 
bury. Mrs. Bradbury, having been tried for witchcraft, 
was convicted but not executed. 

Morris Tucker made the bricks for the parsonage house 
built in 1693, and evidences of the old brickyard are to be 
seen at this day on the farm which he occupied. 

March 28, 1699, Morris Tucker sold land to his son 
James Tucker. 

He removed to Tiverton, R. I., and is said to have died 
there. 

CHILD. 

1. Benoni^, born Oct. 16, 1662. | 

CIIILDKEN-SECOND MAItBIAGE. 

2. John^, born Aug. 16, 1664. J 

3. Mary, born May 21, 1666. 

4. James, born Dec. 28, 1667. 

5. Sarah, born May 19, 1670. 

6. Joseph'^, born Feb. 20, 1671-2, m. Phebe^ Page. 

7. Jabez, born Feb. 5, 1675.^ - 

8. Elizabeth, born April 7, 1677. 
g. Morris, born Sept. 6, 1679. 

*The records of the town proceedings of Salisbury cover the 
years 1838 to 1885, and the vital records begin one year earlier. 

The Rocky Hill Congregational Church of Salisbury was 
organized in 1718, and their records began in 1718. 

fRev. John Tucker (Beiij.,^ Benoni,'^ Morris,^) born Sept. 19, 1719, 
ill Amesbary, Mass., was a descendant, of Morris^ Tucker. Graduated 
from Harvard College in 1741. Ordained Oct. 20, 174,5, at Newburj^ 
Mass (See Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.) 

:t:Deceraber 17, 1691, John Tucker of Salisbury sold to his uncle 
Isaac Morrill of Salist)ury, for^Tio and £iQ in goods merchantaV)le, 
all of the land bought of his (John Tucker's) grandfather, John Gill. 

Authorities : Hoyt, David W., Old Families of Salisbury and 
Amesbury, Mass. Providence, R. I., pp. 337, 338. 

Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of New England. 
Boston, Mass., 1863, p. 339. 

Evans, John Q., Salisbury's Earliest Settlers (1898), p. 8. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 11 



SECOND GENERATION. 



2. JOSEPH^ TUCKER, {MorHs^), [son of Morris and 
Elizabeth' (Gill) Tucker], was born in Salisbury, Mass., 
Feb. 20, 167 1-2. On Oct. 14, 1695, was published his 
intention of marriage to Phebe Page. [Joseph-, John'^), 
daughter of Joseph- and Martha^ (Dowj Page. She was 
born Nov. 17, 1674. She was admitted to the Salisbury 
Church June 8, 17 18. 

On Feb. 18, 1741, Joseph Tucker and others petitioned 
the Governor of New Hampshire for permission to be an- 
nexed to Kingston. In 1735 he deeded to his son Moses'^ 
Tucker, the homestead in Salisbury, on consideration that 
Moses would provide for his mxaintainance. He died June 
30, 1743. She died Dec. 29, 1736. 



I 
2 

3 
3. 4 

5 

6 



CHILDRE^r. 

James^, born April 25, 1697. 

Samuel, born April 16, 1699. 

Joseph, born Aug. 29, 1702. 

Moses^ , born March 28, 1704-5, m. Johannah* Dow. 

Ebenezer, born Aug. 31, 1707. 

Phebe, born April 27, 1712. 



"New Ipswich, Hillsborough Co., N. H., three miles from Green- 
way Station, 20 miles W. from Nashua, three churches, an academ}', 
a saving bank, mufg. of machinery, chairs, cigars, etc., pop. 1380.'' 

"Salisbury, Essex County, Mass., near the north bank of the 
Merrimac River, adjacent to the village of Amesbury Ferry, on a 
branch of the Eastern R. R., about 11 miles N. E. of Haverhill, and 
24 miles N. of Salem. It contains a newspaper office, several churches, 
a national bank, a savings bank, a high school and several manu- 
facturers of carriages. A chain suspension bridge over the river 
connects Salisbury with Hewburyport." 

Salisbury Tp. is bounded on the East by the Atlantic Ocean and 
on the South by the Merrimac River. It has six churches, also 
mnfg. of woolen goods and hats, eight boat and ten carriage factories. 
It was first settled in 1636, population of Township 4078. 

Authorities : Town Papers, documents and records relating to 
towns in Nev/ Hampshire. Concord, N. H., 1875, pp. 332, 3G0. 



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THIRD GENERATION. 



3. CAPTAIN M0SES3 TUCKER, {Joseph\ Morris^), 
[youngest son of Joseph* and Phebe' (Page) Tucker], was 
born in Salisbury, Mass., on March 28, 1704-5. He was 
married on August 18, 1727, at Haverhill, Mass., to 
Johannah* Dow {Stephen,* Stephen,^ Thofnas'^), [daughter 
of Stephen^ and Mary^ (Hutchins) Dow], who was born 
on September 26, 1709, in Haverhill, Mass. 

On May 3, 1731, Abraham Brown of Salisbury for £1$ 
sold to Moses Tucker, sadler, a one-fourth part of a forty-acre 
lot of land in Kingston, N. H., and the same day John Web- 
ster, of Salisbury, sold to Moses Tucker a half interest in a 
forty acre lot in the west part of Kingston, near Chester, N. H. 

On Sept. 24, 1746, the inhabitants and freeholders of 
Kingston voted to set off a certain district of the town into 
a separate or distinct parish or precinct. Moses Tucker 
was among the freeholders so set off. 

On February 5, 1757, a Mr. Huse sold land 

in Kingston, N. H., to Moses Tucker. About 1738 Moses 
Tucker removed to Kingston, N. H., where all of his 
children (except the eldest) were born. Novembers, 1760, 
Benjamin Hoar, of Ipswich, N. H., sold to Moses Tucker 
of the parish of Kingston, town of Sandown, N. H., for 
the sum of ^250, a certain tract of land in New Ipswich, 
N. H. In 1762 he was town clerk and selectman. Octo- 
ber 7, 1768, Moses Tucker, of New Ipswich, for the love 
and good will to his son Reuben Tucker, of New Ipswich, 
deeded to him a certain tract of land in New Ipswich. 

February 7, 1769, " Moses Tucker and Reuben Tucker, 
both of New Ipswich, for five shillings, relinquished to 
Joseph Tucker of New Ipswich, a husbandman and a minor, 
under the age of twenty-one, all their right and interest in 



THB TUCKER GENEALOGY 



their honored father, Moses Tucker's real estate, late of 
New Ipswich, gent." 

Nathan Boynton, of a place called New Ipswich, 
Province of New Hampshire, to ** Moses Tucker of the 
same place and Province, gentleman, for ^40; sold forty 
acres of land October 27, 1766.'' 

On Oct. 22, 1762, he, with thirty-seven others, peti- 
tioned the Governor for authority to levy a special tax to 
build a meeting house in New Ipswich. 

Moses Tucker removed to Kingston, N. H. , and from 
there to New Ipswich, N. H. He was an officer in the 
Indian wars. He died January 6, 1769, aged 66. 

" Moses Tucker was here (New Ipswich) probably before 
1745. He located on "Town Hill." The house was taken 
down many years since, and the place is known as the 
Russell Pasture. He is said to have been a very resolute man, 
and to have been an officer in some of the French and Indian 
Wars. It is supposed that this house was fortified and used for 
the protection of that neighborhood, at the time of the capture 
of John Fitch and family by the Indians, July 6, 1748. 

"The alarm was so great that all the inhabitants fled, ex- 
cept Captain Tucker, who, for a while, was the sole occupant 
of the place. 

"After the incorporation of the town, he was for several 
years Town Clerk and Selectman. He died Jan. 6, 1769, age 
65, and was then the oldest man in town. His son Joseph 
married Martha Woolson; she died 1773, age 22. His son 
Moses lived near Capt. Woolson's place, now vacant, is slill 
called 'Tucker's Orchard.' He died in 1792, age 58. Either 
he or his father owned the farm afterwards occupied by Judge 
Champney. His daughter Susan married Ithamar Wheelock. 
His daughter Mary married George Start. 

Amesbury, Mass., was set off from Salisbury in 1654. 

Reference : Kidder, Frederick and Gould, Augustus A. The 
History of New Ipswich. Boston, 1852. 

The New England Magazine, Boston, Mass-, 190c. Vol. 22, pp. 
97 to 112. 

Town Papers of New Hampshire. Coi'cord, N. H., 1883. Vol, 
12, pp. 731, 732. 



14 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



"It is not known at what period the first military com- 
pany was organized in town (New Ipswich) but probably as 
early as 1755, as from that time until 1760 we had an Indian 
enemy on our borders. It is supposed that Capt. Tucker was 
the first commander. This is mainly inferred from his having 
the title of captain, and his known martial ability and 
courage. 

"Isaac Appleton says the first training he ever witnessed 
was in 1771, and in the list of officers, Moses Tucker, Jr., is 
mentioned as one of the corporals." 

CHILDHEN. 



I 

2 

3 

4 
5 
6 

7 

8 

9- 

ID. 



Mary*, born Jan. 3, 1728-9. '^ " 

Parker, born Jan. 11, 1730. Died May 7, 1736. 

Phebe, born March 26, 1735, in Kingston. 

Moses, born March 6, 1735-6, in Salisbury, died 1792, 

Sarah*, born March 13, 1739, in Kingston. 

Elizabeth, born April 8, 1741. 

Hannah, born Sept. 22, 1743. 

Reuben^, born June 19, 1747, m. Relief* Farasworth. 

Joseph, born Oct. 22, 1748. 

Mary, born Oct. 5, 1751. 



Moses* Tucker took an active part in the Revohition for the 
cause of Independence, April 19, 1775, a drummer in Capt. Reuben 
Dow's company of minute men. He marched from New Ipswich 
before dayhght on the morning of April 20, 1775, to Cambridge on 
alarm of Battle of Concord. He is named in pay roll of Capt. Jona- 
than Whitcomb's 5th Co. of Colonel James Reed's Regt. as serving 
from April 28, 1775, for three months and sixteen da3's. 

Octobers, 1775, a drummer in Capt. Reuben Dow's company of 
Col. Wm. Prescott's Regt. June 29 to July 3, 1777, served five days 
as private in Capt. Lewis' Co. to re-enforce I'iconderoga. July 3 to 
July ir, served nine days as sergeant in Capt. MellinsCo. Hales Regt. 

Sept. 28 to Oct. 25, served twenty-eight days as lieutenant in 
in Capt. Briant's Co. Moore's Regt. 

Aug. ID to Aug. 28, 1778, served twenty-one daj-s as lieutenant in 
Capt. Fletcher's Co. Col. Enoch Hale's Regt. 

Aug. 8 to Aug. 28, 1778, served twenty-three days as sergeant in 
Capt. Jhs. Lewis'Co. Col. Enoch Hales' )^^z. Marched from N. H. 
and joined Continental Army in R. I. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 15 

The grave of Capt. Moses Tucker in the old burying 
ground in New Ipswich, N. H., is marked by a slab which 
reads : 

MEMEMO MORI: 

HERE LIES THE 

BODY OF CAPT, 

MOSES TUCKER, 

WHO DEPARTED 

THIS LIFE JAN. 6th, 

1769, IN THE 65th 

YEAH OF HIS AGE. 



16 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



FOURTH GENERATION. 



4. REUBEN* TUCKER {Moses^, Joseph^, Morris'^), 
[son of Moses^ and Johannah* (Dow) Tucker], was 
born in Kingston, Rockingham County, N. H., June 19, 
1747. Removed with his parents to New Ipswich, Hills- 
borough County, N. H., and from there to Townsend, 
Middlesex County, Mass., where he kept a tavern. While 
his brother Moses rendered material aid in the cause of 
American independence, Reuben's sympathies were with 
the Loyalists. Many families were thus divided. 

He was married on June 4, 1771 to Relief* Farns- 
worth, {David^, Samuel^, Matkias^), [daughter of Lieut. 
David^ and Hannah* (Hastings) Farnsworth of Groton], 
who was born in 1749. 

Dec. 28, 1772, he purchased a tract of fifty acres in 
Townsend for ;^55, (see appendix *'C" for copy of deed). 
Aug. 23, 1773, he made another purchase of twenty acres for 
£2,0 from Benj. Ball. Aug. 29, 1774, Reuben* Tucker sold 
to Moses* Tucker, sixty-two acres of land, "It being land 
given him by his honored father, Moses Tucker." About 
1783 he emigrated to Nova Scotia with his family and 
settled among the Loyalists, at Sissiboo, where he resided 
for a short time. He then removed to a farm on the east 
side of the Grand Joggin, where he resided up to the time 
of his death. In 1803 he was appointed Justice of the 
Peace. He died June 12, 1803. 

Shortly after the death of Reuben Tucker the farm was 
sold to Henry Oakes, who took down the old house and 
built the one now (1895) standing, in which his grandson, 
W. W. Payson lives. 

CniLDBRN BOKN IH ToWNSEND, MA88. 

I. Relief, born May 3, 1772, m. (ist) George Start, sham. 
(2d), John Morehouse as his second wife. After 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 17 

her death on Feb. i, t^25, at Sandy Cove, N. S. 
He married a third time. 

CHILD — FIRST MARRIAGE. 

I, Moses" Start, who married Margaret Gould, and had 

Marie' Start, born February 13, 1801. m. (lirst), Aaron Smith; 
m. (second). Deacon Andrew Farusworth [son of Jonathrtn 
1' arnswortli]. at Bakersfleld, Vt., July 22, 1326, and died 
there in 1865, 

CHILDREN SECOND MARRIAGE. 

1. Ann Ilosette^, born June 5, 1827: m. Bolli.s R. Holmes June 
10, 1849. Resides at Galosburg, 111. 
CHILDRKN. 

1. Fred Jlosmer^ Holmes, born Jan 21, 1886; ni. Nettio 

Mars. Re.sides in Galesbur;?, Ill, Children: France.^ 
Louise, Horace Mars and Margaret. 

2. Frank Farnsworth, born March 21. 18.58 Oflfioo lOr, 

La Salle Street, Chicago. Local fire insurance agent 
and Secretary and Treasurer National Association of 
Local Fire Insurance Agents. 

3. Jessie E., born Oct 18, 1H61. Lives in Galesburg, III.; 

teacher in Knox College, 
i. Sollis Perry, born Aug. 24, 1864; m. Mary Wyncoop 

Hammond, of Wyoming, 111., Jan. l, 1887. Lives in 

Chicago. One son, William Hammond^", born in 1889. 
6. Norman V. Lives in Chicago. Secretary and organizer 

of the First Illinois Cavalry Association, which took 

part in the Spanish-American War. 

. Laura Perry^, born Nov. 27, 1828; m. Charles ITosmer Case 
March 25, 1862. Mr. Case was for twenty year.'? Western 
Manager of the Royal Insurance Company. Mrs. Case was 
for years President of the Illinois State Board of Foreign 
Missions. 
CHILDREN — SECOND MARRIAGE. 

3. Charles" Morehouse; m. Hannah Sanders, He died Jan. 

i6, 1884, aged 65 years. No children. 
3. Reuben" Morehouse. Died young. 

Mary°, born March 29, 1774, m. in Digby, N. S., Nov. 
13, 1794, to James Titus (son of Isaac and Jem- 
ima Titus) wlio was born at Westbury, N. Y. , 
in March, 1770. He died in Digby, April 5, 
1858. She died in Digby, April 15, 1853. 

CHILDREN BORN IN DIGBY. 

1. Charles'' Titus, born Sept. 28, 1795; died Nov. 24, 1813, in 
St. John, N. B. Unmarried. 

2. James, born in 1797; m. Eliza Wilbur. He was lost at 
sea. His widow married again and lived at Portland, Me. 

3. Eelief, born Oct- 11, 1799; m Jan. 3, 1819, in Digby, 
William Bnrnham, who was bora Sept. 14, 1793, in 
Digby, He died in Aug. 1878. She died Nov. 22. 1885. 



18 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

4. Maria, born May 12, 1803; m. June 6, 1819, to William 
Farnham, who was born Sept. 16, 1792, in Wiscasset, 

Maine. He died Nov. 30, 187;^, in Digby. She died 
May 6, 1868. 

5. Lucy, born July i, 1805; m. Jan. 27. 1825, to Thomas 
Holds ivorth, who was born Jan. 27, 1800; died Jan. 31, 
1872. She died May 8, 1888. 

G. Reuben. Lost at sea; unmarried. 

3. Hannah^ born March 23, 1776, m. at Digby, (ist), Wil- 
liam Smith, a sea captain, born in Digby. He 
was lost at sea at 48 years of age; (m. 2d,) Jacob 
Burns, son of William Burns, a farmer. She 
died in Gullivers Cove, N. S., age 70 years. 

CHILDREN — FIRST MARRIAGE. 

I. William* Smith, born in 1799; m. Mary McLarren. He 
died in 1867. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Elizabeth', born , m. Charles Warn. 

2. Mary Jane, born — , m. — Messingfir. 

3. Sophia, born , m. Joseph McNeill. 

i. Caroline, born , m. John McNeill 

5. Louise, born . 



6. John, born . Died in 1891. 

Lucy' Smith, born June 3, 1797; m. Isaac Burns on Feb. 
27, 1817. He was born Nov. 2, 1790, at Digby Neck, N. S. 
She died Aug. 20, 1865. He died in Weymouth, N. S., in 
1869. Episcopalian and LiberaL 

CHILDREN. 

1, Relief, born December 16, 1819; m. Forsythe Turnbull. 

C/iild Chas. E.' Tnrnbnll resides in Digby. N. S. 

2, Ann Elizabeth', born May 21, 1822; m. Joseph Archer 

Child Geo.* Archer resides in Brockton, Mass. 

3. Katharine Hannah'^, born Sept U, 1824; ra. Joshua Turn- 
bull. Resides at 38 Fairview Street, Roslindale, Mass. 

4. Maria', born Aug. 21, 1826. 

5, Clarissa', born April 3, 1829; m William Livingston; resi- 
dence 293 Callea Calleo, Buenos Ayres, S. A. 

6. Amelia', born Nov. 21, 1831, in Digby Neck, N. S. Married 

1st), John Allen on Nov. 16, 18.54, in Boston, Mass. He was 
born Aug. 21, 1831. He died Jan 21,1857. He was a shoe 
manufacturer. Pi'osbyterian and Liberal. She m. (2nd). 
Ditmars Dunbar on Sept. 29, 1877, in Boston. He was 
born Feb. 19, 1825, He is a farmer. Episcopalian and Lib- 
eral. Resides at Weymouth Bridge N. S. 
7 Charles', born Sept. i, 1834: m. Levina Farnham. Resides 
at Digby, N. S. 

8. William', born Feb. 8, 1837; m. Pauline Saunders. Resides 
at Sandy <'ove, N. 8. 

9. Albert', born Sept. 8, 1839; ra. Annie Hughes. Residence 
47 Second St., Victoria. B. C. 



THK TUCKER GENEALOGY 19 

CHILDREN— SECOND MARRIAGE. 

3. Mary'' Burns, born in iScg; m. John Cassiiboom. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Sarah', born , tn. David Hawkesworth. 

2. Charles, 

3. Geor!,'e, born , m. — Smith. 

i. Enoch . 

5. William, born, . m. — Haines. 

4. Edward* Burns, born , m Elizabeth McLaren. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Jiirchia". born . m. — Messenger. 

2. Matilda, born , m. Edmund Coruwell. 

3. Norman, born , m. ~ Purdy. 

♦. Charles. 

5. Clarissa* Burns, born May 4, 1807; m. Dec. 17, 1829, Robert 
Timpany, (Robert Kingsley^, John A. ^, Maj. RoberV). 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Ann^ born Sept. 20, 1830; m. Oct.. iH.-ii. to William 
Hankinson, who was born Oct. 2. I8I:!. Shf! d. Dec 10. 1879 

2. Hannah, born in 1832; m, Harvey Robbing. 

3. Clarissa'; m. Jacob liobbins. 

i. Sarah .Jane; m. George Hankinson. 

5. Margaret, 

6. Major; m. Elmira Robbius. 

7. John'; m. Hauley. 

8. Haines; m. Margaret Gassaboom. 

6. Charles" Burns. 

7. James W.'' Burns; m. Jane Morehouse. Resides 
Sandj"- Cove, N. S. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John; m. Graham. 

2. Joseph. 

3. Felix. 
*, Isaac. 

5. James. 

6. A daughter. 

8. Robert" Burns; m. Sophia McLaren. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Douglass'; deceased. 

2. Levina; m. — Medlar. 

9. Sarah" Burns; m. Henry Titus. 

4. Reuben^, born January 6, 1778. 

5. David^, born August 28, 1779; died Sept. 19, 1779 

6. David^, born October 20, 1780; married but had na 

children. 
5, 7. Charles^, born October 14, 1782; married (first) 
Welthe'^ Ruggles. 



20 Tllfc TUCKER GENEALOGY 

The History of Townsend, Mass., says : 

" In addition to all other embarrassments under which 
the patriotic citizens were laboring, was the discouraging 
influence of about a dozen men in this town, who were known 
as tories. These men for more than two years, had clandes- 
tinely opposed all measures which tended to resist the 
authority of Great Britain, They were intelligent men, most 
of them, and they lived on what is known as Wallace 
Hill, also called by an Indian name. During the time 
the minute-men were absent, after the alarm was made on 
the 19th of April, 1775, they were offensively outspoken and 
disagreeable. It was during this year that it was necessary 
for every man to "screw his courage up to the sticking 
point." Public opinion demanded that every able-bodied 
citizen should give an undivided support to the American 
cause, or be exposed to popular indignation, to prosecutions 
before a special Court of Sessions of Peace, to imprisonment, 
or to a coat of tar and feathers. From that time such persons 
were watched. Occasionally they were obliged to uncover 
their heads, and, in presence of the assembled majesty of the 
town, to promise greater love for the American cause, and a 
strict conformity to the popular will. 

The patriots were determined to remove every obstacle 
in the way of success and to ferret out every loyalist who 
might utter a word against their cause. Accordingly a com- 
mittee was chosen "to collect evidence of inimical and 
unfriendly persons agreeable to an act of the Great and 
General Court," which attended to that duty. 

On the 8th of July, 1776, "Voted that the select-men 
lay before the town a list of such persons as they think 
dangerous or unfriendly to this or the United States, or have 
been so since the 19th of April, 1775; and it was done so. 

"A List of the persons names taken by us the Sub- 
scribers and presented to the Town of Townshend at a legal 
town meeting, agreeable to an act of the General Court, 
entitled an act for securing internal enemies as persons whom 



Authority : Sawtelle, Itharaar B., Histoiy of Townsend, Mass, 
(1878), pp. 190' to 195. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 21 

we consider daugerous and unfriendly to this and the United 
States of America, is as follows, viz. : 

Isaac Wallis, Joshua Smiih, 

William Wallis, Reuben Tucker, 
David Holden, Seth Johnson. 

Townshend, July 8, 1777, 
Again August 11, 1777. 

James Hosley 
Richard Wver 

Zachariah EMERvlS^^^'^t-^^en of 
Levi Whitney ( Townshend. 
Thos. Warren. 
James Hosley, Town Clerk." 

Some of the tories were arrested, taken to Townshend 
Harbor, and confined in a cooper shop, which stood nearly 
opposite the leather-board mill at that place, where they were 
guarded by a detachment of soldiers from Captain Douglas' 
Company, They were fed by their friends and families, dur- 
ing their imprisonment, which continued more than a month. 
It is said that as some troops from New Hampshire were 
passing through tov/n, while viesving the situation of these 
prisoners, overheard one of them calling them rebels, which 
so excited these patriots that it was with much difficulty that 
the guard restrained ihem from firing on the inmates of the 
shop. 

A part of the Townshend tories, when the excitement was 
at its height, who were not land owners, precipitantly left the 
town. The patriots were after them on all sides. 

After the close of the war there was considerable pressure 
on the part of absente;:s, or runaway tories, from all parts 
of the country, for ihe privilege of returning to the places 
that were once their homes. To this the patriots never 
consented." 



22 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

Reuben* Tucker is buried in Digby, N. S.. just outside 
a Masonic graveyard. His tombstone reads : 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

REUBEN TUCKER, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

JUNE 12, 1803, 

AGED 56 YEARS. 

''BLESSED ARE THE DEAD 

'IHAT DIE IN THE LORD." 

His widow died February 11, 1825, aged 75 years, and 
is buried at Sandy Cove (20 miles from Digby), the slab 
marking her grave reads : 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

RELIEF TUCKER, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

FEBRUARY II, 1825, 

AGED 75 YEARS. 

"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, 

FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD. 




■ Urn ^ 



■J .^j.' 












THK TUCKER GENEALOGY 23 



FIFTH GENERATION, 



5. CHARLES^ TUCKER {Reuben^, Moses\ Josepk\ 
Mor7'is'^), [youngest child of Reuben* and Relief* (Farns- 
worth) Tucker]" was born in Townsend, Mass., on Oct. 
14, 1782. He removed with his parents to Nova 
Scotia at the close of the Revolutionary War, and they 
settled at Digby. In 1804 he was married to Welthe'' 
Ruggles {Richard'^ , Gen. Timothy^, Rev. Timothy^, Capt. 
Samuel, Capt. Santuer'', Thomas'^), [daughter of Richard* 
and Wealthy^ (Hathaway) Ruggles] who was born in 1783. 

The Tucker homestead, built by Charles Tucker early 
in the century, is upon Digby Ridge, three miles from the 
town of Digby, N. S, It is a beautiful spot, and has one 
of the finest orchards in the province, with a view of Digby 
Harbor through the trees. The dwelling is reached from 
the road by a long lane bordered on each side by rows of 
lilac bushes and snowball trees, planted alternately. The 
lilacs were once trimmed to correspond in shape with the 
snowballs. 

He returned to Massachusetts and settled in Cam- 
bridge. On Dec. 30, 1854, Welthe Tucker died at 66 East 
Cambridge street, Cambridge. She is buried in Bunker 
Hill Street Cemetery, Charlestown, Mass. Mr. Tucker 
married a second time. He died in Marshlield, Mass., 
April 10, 1864, in his 82nd year. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Relief Ann^ Tucker, born April 3, 1805.; died March 
I, 1883, at Fredericton, N. B. Oct. 27, 1825, 
married (first), William Baxter Turnbull [son of 

Townsend, Mass., was incorporated in 1732. The first marriage 
recorded was in 1737. 



24 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

George and Isabella (Baxter) Turnbull] who 
was born Dec. 20, 1799, at Digby. Died July 
18, 1845, at Bear River, N. S, She married, 
(second) on Jan. 24, 1861, at St. John, N. B. , 
James Brayley, as his third wife. She died in 
Fredericton, N. B., March i, 1883. 

CHILDREN BORN AT BEAR RIVER, N. S. 

1. Charles George' Turnbull, born Sept. 16, 1826; m. (ist), 
at Marshalltown, N. S., in 1861, to Lalia Dakin, who was 
born June 15, 1836, at Marshalltown, N. S.; died Feb. 8, 
1869, at St. John, N. B. He married (and), at Digby, 
N. S., on Sept. 1, 1870, Margaret Budd, who was born 
April 29, 1831, in St. John, N. B. She died there May 2, 
1872. He married (3rd), on June i, 1873, at St. John, 
N. B., Mrs. Mary Ann Whitley who was born Dec. 12, 
1833, at St. John, N. B. 

2. William Wallace' Turnbull, born May 23, 1828; m. June 
6, 1854. in Maugeville, N. B., to Julia Caroline Hatha- 
way [daughter of Calvin Luther and Sarah (Harrison) 
Hathaway], who was born in Lancaster, N. B. July 27, 
1828. He died on June 26, 1899, at St. John, N. B. 

CHILDREN BORNT IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 

1. Annie Florence^, born July 17. 1856; died April 23, 1865, at 
Fredei-icton, N. B. 

2. Sarnh Bditli^, born March 7, 1858; m. Slay 23. 1888, Silas 
Alward, who was born April 14, 1841, at New Canaan, 
Queens County, N- B. 

3. Julia Minnie^ born Aug. 13, 1859; died Nov. 6, 1864. 

4. Ernest Hatheway. born April 7, 1861. 

6, Herbert llandolph, born Nov. 28, 1862; died May 21, 1364. 

6. Nellie Blanohe. born Feb. 28, 18C4: died Sept. 24, 1864. 

7. Grace Frederica, born Nov. 6, 1865. 

8. Margaret Irene, born May 23, I867; m. Sept. 6, 1899, in St. 
John, N. B , to Praneis Peniston Starr, who was born 
chere .July 16. 1868. 

9. Wallace Rupert, born Oct. 16, 1870; m. May 31. I801, to Mary 
Willis Davidson, who was born Aug. 26, 1872, in St. John. 

3. Pamelia' Turnbull, born Jan. 27, 1830; m. June 15, 1853, 
in St. John, N. B., to Charles E. Burnham, who was 
born Jan. 15, 1829, in Digby, N. S. 

4. Evelina' Turnbull, born March 9. 1832; m. (ist), Aug. 
28, 1851, in St. John to William G. Dunham; m. (2nd), 
Nov. 17, 1873, in St. John to Amos Fales. 

5. Emma Jean' Turnbull, born Feb. 25, 1834; m. (ist), 
Nov. 28, 1854, at St. John, N. B., to Henry Clay Ring; 
m. (2nd), May 23, 1872, at St. John, to James Steadman, 
who was born March 27, 1818, in Moncton, N. B. 



THK TUCKER GENEALOGY 25 

6. John Baxter' Turnbull, born March 9, 1836. Died Sept. 
i!6, 1836. 

7. Weltbe Isabella' Turnbull, born Dec. 24, 1838. Died 
Jan. 29. 1846. 

8. Amira Donaldson' Turnbull, born Jan. 14, 1840; m. 
Sept. 9, 1858, at St. John, N. B., to Archibald Fitz Ran- 
dolph, who was born July 24, 1833, at Digby, N. S. 

9. Helen Brown' Turnbull, born June 2, 1842; m. Oct. 25, 
18B6, at St. John, N. B., to Henry Chestnut, who was 
born March 29, 1835, in Fredericton, N. B. 

10. Margaret' Turnbull, born Sept. 25, 1844; died July 29, 
1882, at Fredericton, N. B, She was married June 9, 
1874, at Ftedericton, to John Babbitt, who was born 
there May X2, 1847. He died there Dec. 10, 1889. 

6. 2. Gilbert Rt/i^i^Ies^ Tucker, born Jan. 9, 1807. Married 
Evelina Christina Snyder. 
3. Welthe Ann*' Tucker, born March i, 1810. Married 
Dec. 17, 1829, in Digby, N. S., to John Dakin 
[son of Daniel and Sarah (Warwick) Dakin], 
who was born in Digb}', June 9, 1804; died 
there Dec. 4, 1877. She died in Marshalltown, 
N. S., Dec. 10, 1872. 

CHILDREN BORN IN MARSHALLTOWN. 

1. Ainirefc' Dakin, born Oct 27, 1831; m. Sept. 21, 1850, to 
Thomas Watere, who was born March 7, 1823, in Eng- 
land; died June 13, 1871, by being lost at sea off Callao, 
Peru. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Elizalji-th" Waters, bora Oot. 7,1851; cJiod Fi'b. 26, 1S74; ra. 
W. H. Gilpni Jnne 29, 1S74. 

2. J^[ary^ horn Aufj. 15, 1853; m. Sept, 2. 187r>. W. 8 (xilpiii 
Fivf ohildi-en. 

3. AlioH^*, born Jan. 6, 1855; m. Jane 20, 18S2, Rov. J. A. Cairns. 
Four children. 

4. Amaret^, born Oot. 9, 1856; m. Nov. 2. 1885. D. H. Huxloy 
Two children. 

6. Thomas', born Sept. 9, 1858, on board ship off Peru; m. 
Tiienisa McLauehlin. Resides in New Zealand. 

6. .Tohn", born Jun^ 8, 1861, on board ship off Bolivia, S. A. 

7. Benjamin^, born Oct. 1. 1864, at Marshalltown, N. a.; m 
Oct. 1, 1887. Cassie M. D^ninisou. He is a druggiat in 
Wareham, Mass. Oiiildren : 

Beiijninin IVrcy, boin Aug. 20, 18S8. Kdith, born Feb. 9, 1S!)2: Elsio 
born Feb. 9, 18 02. Twins. 

8. Sarah Lalia". born June 20, 1869, in IM^hy. Died Dec 9, 

1873. 

2, <;ilbert Ruggles' Dakin, born June 8, 1833; died in 1842. 



26 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



3. Laleah^ Dakin, born June 15, 1836; died Feb, 8, 1869, in 
St. John, N. B.; m. Charles George Tui-nbull on Nov. 4, 
1861. He was born Sept. 16, 1826. 

4. Charles Tucker'' Dakin, born Sept. 4, 1838; m. Ada Hill. 

5. John Leander'^ Dakin; m. Sarah Jane Cooke. 

6. Edward Hathaway '^ Dakin. 

7. Gustavus Waters'' Dakin, born Nov , 1850; m. Augusta 
Small. 

Sarah Sophia^ Tucker, born March 27, 1814. Mar- 
ried, (first) Aug. 5, 1836, to P^ederick William 
Thorne, who was born April 15, 1816. Died 
Jan. 5, 1845. She married, (second), in 1847, 
Robert Reed [son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Tay- 
lor) Reed] who was born Oct. 22, 1823, in 
Annapolis County, N. S. She died Feb. 27, 
1876, in Digby, N. S. 

CHILDREN — FIRST MARRIAGE. 

11. J.'^ Thorne, born June i, 1837. 

Annie .Sophia'' Thorne, born Jan 10, 1839. 

Eugenia^ Thorne, born March 19, 1841. 

Mary Eliza'' Thorne, born April 2, 1843. 

Frederick William' Thorne, born June 20, 1845. Resides 

at Thome's Grove, N. S. 

CHILDREN— SECOND MARRIAGE, (BORN AT DIGBY NECK). 

I. Miriam'' Reed, born Feb. 18, 1847; ^- July ii> 1867, at 
St. Mary's Bay to E. A. Poole, son of Asa Bent Poole, 
who was born Oct. 31, 1833, and died May 24, 1885. She 
resides in Casselton, N. D. 



CHILDREN. 



/ 



1, 



2. 
8. 

i. 

5. 



Florence Mae" Poole, boni Oct. U, 1868; m. Jan. 18, 1887, to 

James B. Patterson. Resides at 1720 Twelfth Street, West 

Suparior, Wis. 

Mary Enid Eugene, born Doc. 7, 1871; died July l, 1891. 

Mabel Edith, born May 4. 1874. Resides at Missoula, Mont. 

John Robert, born May 5, 1874. 

Birdie Maude. 



2. 



Relief Reed, born Nov. 22, 1848; m. Jan. 19, 1873, at 
Digby, to Charles Haines, son of James and Jane 
(Timpany) Haines, who was born June 9, 1827. Resides 
in Hainesville, N. S. 



CHILDREN. 



rWV 



1, Janet Blanche*, born Dec- 27, i87;^,(^to Edward H. McKay on 
Oct. 2.5. 1803. Resides at Sandy Cove, N. 8. 

2. Roland Ruggles. born April 24, 1876, 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 27 

3- Judson' Reed, born Oct. 13, 1850; m. July 4, 1878, at 
Plymptoa, N. S., to Ena Smith, daughter of John and 
Deidamia (Savery) Sraith, who was born May 26, 1859, 
in Piympton. Resides on East Ash St., Waltham, Mass. 

CHILDREK. 

1. Pearl Winnefred", born May 11, lb79. 

2. Rcatta Oswald, bom Oot. 1, 1880. 

3. JoKie May, born July 25, 1882. 

4. Sadie, born March 27, 1884. 

6. Porey Campbell, born May 11, 1887. 

4. Charles'' Reed, born May 17, 1853; m. Sophia Hustis, of 
Yarmouth, N. S. 

5. Minnie' Reed, born May 17, 18.53; died Nov., 1881, at 
Boston, Mass. 

6. Addie' Reed, born March 30, 1855; m. E. S. Chadwick, 
Lynn, Mass. 

7. Amaret" Reed, born Feb. 6, 1858; m. May 14, 1879, Robert 
Hill of Digbj% who was born Dec. 24, 1856. Resides at 
9 James Street, Lynn, Mass. 

Child Beuieah Elliott*, born April 2.5, 1881. 

Eliza^ Tucker. Married John Small. He was a 
farmer, born in Digby. She died Sept. 28, 1878. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Julia Arabeir Small, born July 11, 1857, in Digby 
County, N. S.; married Nov. 15, 1881, at Digby, to Will- 
iam Albert Hutchinson, who was born Aug. 10, 1857. 
Farmer and Baptist; resides at Upper Rossway, N. S. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Kate Lillian" Hutchinson, born Feb. 2, 1883. 

2. Lena Estelle. born Oct. 28, 1884. 

3. Nelli*^ Blanchard, born April 2, 1887. 
i. Nina Bell, born Aug. il. 1888. 

5. William Heber, born Aug. 26, 1891. 

2. Welthe Ruggles' Small, married Jan. 14, 1874, Gustavis 
W. Dakin. Resides at Page, Cass County, N. Dak. 

William Reuben^ Tucker, born in 1817; was married 
in 1840 at Marshalltown, N. S. , to Mrs. Margaret 
(Melanson) Blinn [daughter of Belona Melan- 
son and widow of John Blinn]. She died in 
Piympton, N. S., in Sept., 1884. He died there 
Oct. 23, i8gi. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Margaret^, born Oct. 25, 1843, at Marshalltown, N. S. 
was married in Nov., 1865, to Timothy Bondreau, who 



28 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

was born in 1836. He was a sea captain. Lost at sea 
Nov., 1880. His widow resides at Weymouth Bridge, N. S. 

CHILDREN, 

1. Ophelia A« Bondreau, born Oct. '.15, 1866, 

2. Carrie H., born Aug. 20, 1868. 

8. Edmund J., born -July 19, 1870; m. Margaret McCuUough on 

June 16, I89i. Resides at 40 Union Street. Boston. 

4. Frederick E., born Mareh 21, 18TJ; died Jan 25. 1879. 

6. Adelia M., born Aug. fi, 1875. 

6. William V.. born Feb. 14, 1877. 

7. Frederick L., born May 1.";. 1879. 

8. Lizzie M., born March G. 1881; died Oct. 2, 1882. 

2. Mary Elizabeth, born at Marshalltown; died at flymp- 
ton, N. S. 

3. Annie Loria, born at Gilbert's Cove, N. S.; died there. 

4. William Reuben", born B'eb. 20, iS^^s, at Marshalltown 
N. S.; was married at Plyinptou, N. S., May 30, 1873, to 
Victoria Done, who was bora May 18, 1848. Sailor; re- 
sides at Plympton, N. S. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Leafy Ann"^, born Dec 20. i.S7i; died Oct. 10, 1876. 

2. Susie Efitle, born Dec. 4, 1876. 

7. Emily « Tucker, born ( ). Married Geo, 

Chamberlin. Removed to St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Vincent" Chamberlin Resided in Boston. 

2. Curtis, born in St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

3. Anne, born in Cbarlestown, Mass. 

(The family are all supposed to be dead.) 

H. Charles H.^ Tucker, born Oct- 25, 1822; was married 
to Anna A. Hathaway [daughter of Calvin 
Luther and Sarah (Harrison) Hathaway] who was 
born at Lancaster, N. B., July 27, 1828. He was 
married, (second) July 16, 1872, at Port William, 
N. S., to Bessie McGowan, who was born May 
12, 1854. He was a school teacher. He died 
in 1889 at Treat Cove, N. S. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Annie'' Tucker; m. A. H. Randolph. Two children : 

Guy Allen*, born Nov. 5, 1888; Helen Elizabeth, born Aug. 6, 1890' 

2. Elizabeth Sraithson; m. H. C Tillie. Resides at St, 
John, N. B. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 29 

CHILDREN — SECOND MARRIAGE. 

3. Elsie Mae'', born Aug. 27, 1873. 

Charles R., born Dec. 3, 1874. Deceased. 
Welthe E., born Dec. 15, 1874, Deceased. 
Gilbert James, born Jan. 31. 1877. 
Bessie A., born May 23, 1878. Deceased. 
Herman D., born Aug. 31, 1880. 
John C, born March 24, 1882. 

g. Cecelia Augusta^ Tucker, born at Digby in 1824. 

Married in 1850 to William Kingsoury Lee. He 

was lost at sea in 1853. She died on June 6, 

1856, in Charlestown, Mass. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Alice Maud'' Lee, born Jan, 28, 1851; married Sept. 2t, 
1867, at Digby, to William Huston McLauchlin, who was 
born Feb. 12, 1846, at Wilmot, II. S. Resides at Plain- 
ville, Conn. 

2. Mary Ella Lee, born Dec, 1852; died Nov. 27, 1854. 

10. Frank Edwin'' Tucker, born May i, 1830. He was 
married in Rockport on Dec. 5, 1858, to Julia 
Ann Dorecty [daughter of John Thomas and 
Sarah Elizabeth Dorecty] who was born Feb. 
22, 1840, in Port Medway, Queens County, 
N. S. He enlisted in the civil war in Oct., 
1861, as a member of Co. G, Twenty- third Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and served three 
years. After the war he located at Manchester, 
Mass. He died in Beverly, Mass., Oct. 6, 1896. 

CHILDREN BORN IN MANCHESTER. 

1. Chai'les F.'' Tucker, born May 5, 1660. 

2. George Hathaway, born Aug. 18, 1866; married on May 

27, 1893, in Lynn, Mass., to Anna Wentzel, who was 
born July 10, 1869, at New Italy, Lunenburg County, N. y. 

3. Welthe Ruggles, born March 11, 1868; m. March 27, 1890, 
in Beverly. Mass., to Charles Austin Hall, who was born 
March 17, 1858, in Beverly, Mass. 

4. William Ruggles, born June 29, 1870. 



30 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



GILL, 

JOHN GILL of Salisbury, Mass., was born about 
1622; was married on the second or third of May, 1645, to 

Phebe2 Buswell [daughter of Isaac 1 and Margaret ( ) 

Buswell] who was born in 1624. 

On April 17, 1653, Isaac Buswell and William Bus- 
well, of Salisbury, made a deposition, viz : 

" About seven years ago Anthony Sadler and John Gyll 
were together at said Isack Buswell's house, and Sadler 
then sold to Gyll a house and lot, bounded by Rodger East- 
man, Thomas Bradbury and Henry Brown." 

Deposition of Martha Sadler alias Burbic sworn to 14: 
4: 1653. " She says that she heard her husband, Anthony 
Sadler, late deceased, say that he sold to John Gyll a house 
and lot in Salisbury between lots of John Bayley, sen., and 
Rodger Eastman, and bounded upon a street S. W. and 
land of Jno Hoyt formerly." 

John Gill of Salisbur)', planter for 30 s., conveyed to 
Edmond Elliott of Salisbury, planter, marsh in Salisbury, 
bounded by Richard Wells and William Buswell on 19: 5: 
1654. 

On the 29th day of the /-£- 1668, John Gill and 
Phoebe his wife deeded a ten acre lot in Salisbury to Morris 
Tucker. 

John Gill lived at what has since been called Gill's 
corner at the Plains. 

John Gill in 1690 sold land on Batt's Hill to his grand- 
son John Tucker. 

He died Dec. i, 1690. His will was dated Sept. i, 
1690, and proved March 31, 1691. 

References: Hoyt's Old Families of .Salisbury and Amesbury, 
Mass., page 174. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 31 

CHILDREN. 

Elizabeth', born Jan. 8, 1645-6, m. Morris^ Tucker. 

John, born Oct. 15, 1647. 

Phebe, born Jan. 6, 1650. 

Samuel, born Jan. 5, 1652. 

Sarah, born June 27, 1654. 

Moses, born Dec. 26. 1656. 

Benjamin, born, 1662. 

Isaac, born April 24, 1665, 

The Will of John Gill. 



"In ye name of God, Amen, I, John Gill, of ye town of 
Salisbury, in ye County of Essex, in their Majests Colony of 
ye Massachusetts in New England, being weake of body, but 
through ye goodness of God, of pfect memory and under- 
standing do hereby reverse, revoke and make voyd all former 
wills and testaments, and every will and testament by or for 
me heretofore made whatsoever. And do make this my last 
will and testamt in manner as foUoweth, 

Imprimis. I commend my spirit to God who gave it, 
and my body to ye dust, decently to be buried, in hopes of a 
joyful resurrection to life eternal, through ye pfect merits of 
Christ, my blessed Redeemer. 

And dispose of my worldly estate, as followeth, viz : I 
give and bequeath unto my eldest sonn, John Gill, five shil- 
lings in mony. 

Ite. I give & bequeath unto my sonns Saml and Moses 
Gill five shillings a piece. 

Ite. I give & bequeath unto my eldest daughtr Elisa- 
beth Tucker ten shillings. 

Ite. I give & bequeath unto my second daughter Phoebe 
Morrel, twenty shillings, 

Ite. I give & bequeath unto Sarah Petty, my third 
daughter, five shillings, and ten pounds in ye hand of my son 
Samll Gill to be payd after my decease. 

Ite. My will is yt all or any of ye above bequeathed 
legacies except sd ten pound to Sarah Petty shall not be 
demandable, payable or recoverable before ye decease of 
Phoebe, m}' now wife. 



32 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

Ite. I give and bequeath unto my grandson Abraham 
Morrel, eldest son to Isaac Morrel of Salisbury my land ap- 
prtaining to my homestead with my dwelling house, orchard, 
out housing, wth all privileages and apprtenances thereunto 
belonging as also my lott of meadow lying betwixt ye lots of 
Andrew Greely and Capt. Thomas Bradbury, commonly called 
ye humility meadow. 

As also my meadow commonly called ye Winsloe meadow 
adjoyning to ye meadow of Caleb Moody, Samll Fellows, 
Robert Ring, and Capt. Thomas Bradbury. As also one-half 
of my now remaining rights in commonages. And ye feather 
bed with all furniture & apprtenances thereunto belonging, 
which my father-in-law Isaac Buswell gave unto my now wife 
F^hoebe and all after ye expirat of ye natural life of my now 
wife Phoebe. 

Ite. I give & bequeath unto my grandson John Morrel 
fourth son to sd Isaac Morrel, of Salisbury my ten acre lott 
whch I bought of Isaac Buswell & my sweepage lott of 
meadow adjoyning to ye lott of sd Will Buswel by Halls farme. 
And one fourth part of commonages or common rights belong- 
ing unto me, after ye decease of Phoebe, my now wife. 

Ite. I give & bequeath unto my grandson Isaac Morrel, 
second son to sd Isaac Morrel my other feather bed wch I 
usuall}' lye upon wih all ye furniture apprtenances thereunto 
belonging after ye decease of Phoebe my now wife. 

Ite, I give & bequeath unto mj' grandson Jacob Mor- 
rel, third son to sd Isaac Morrel my Higglety pigly lott of 
meadow adjoyning and lying betwixt ye lotts of Isaac Buswel 
and my brother Will Buswel as also one quarter of common- 
ages or common rights belonging unto me after ye decease of 
Phoebe my now wife. 

Ite. My will is yt after ye decease of Phoebe m}^ now 
wife, all my & her just & honest due debts & my and her 
funeral chardges, and all ye above bequeathed legacies be- 
ing duly and truly payd and ciischardged yt all 3erest of my 
moveable estate of what sort soever shall be equally divided 
betwixt my grandsons Abraham and John Morrel and my 
daughters Elisabeth Tucker, Plioebe Morrel and Sarah 
Petty. Finally I make, constitute & appojnt & ordaine my 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 33 

beloved son in-law Isaac Morrel of Salisbury sole executr 
unto this my last will & testament unto whome I give all my 
estate undisposed of in this instrumt or wch otherwise shall 
not be by me disposed of before my decease. 

And in confirmat of ye premises to be my last will & 
testamt I have hereunto subscribed my hand & seal ye first 
day of September, An Dom one thousand .six hundred & 
ninety Annoq Rui Gui, & Mrae D. G. nune Angl &c Ris & 

Rne 2do. 

His 
John X Gill. (seal.) 
mark. 
Signed, sealed & declared to be his last will & testamt in 

ye presence of us. 

Thomas Wells. Thomas Fowller. 

Will proved March, 1691. Recorded in book 304, p. 309. 



BUSWELL. 



ISAAC BUSWELL, was born (probably) in Salisbury, 
England, 1606-08. He came on the "Confidence'' April 
II, 1638, and settled in Salisbury, Mass., where he shared 
in the first division of lands. A Freeman Oct. 9, 1640. 
He married, first, Margaret. She died Sept. 29, 1642. 

His occupation was that of a weaver. On July 29, 
1650, Christopher Batt, a tanner, of Salisbury, Mass., 
conveyed to Isaac Buswell and his son, William Buswell, a 
house and lot in Salisbury for the consideration of £s^ 
and 5s. 

Isaac^ Buswell married, (second,) Susanna. She died 
March 21, 1676-7. 

He died in Salisbury, Mass., July 8, 1683. His will 
is dated April 9. 1680, and proved Sept. 25, 1683. 

Reference: Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Araesbury 
Mass., page 80. 



S4 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

CHILDEKN. 

1. Phebe^, born in 1624, m. John^ Gill. 

2. William, born in 1626. 

3. Samuel, born in 1628. 

4. Mary2, born Aug. 29, 1645. 

5. Isaac, born July 29, 1650. 

The Will of Isaac Buswell. 

The Last will and Testament of Isaac Buswell, Sr., of 
Salisbury, April ye 9 i6th and 80. 

I comend my spirit into ye hands of my Lord and 
Savior, and my body to be decently buried in the earth from 
, whence I was taken, waiting for ye glorious Resurrection of 
ye just at ye last and great Day. 

And for that portion of outward estate wc God of his 
goodness hath lent me, I thus dispose and will, viz : 

My just debts and funerall expenses and legacies herein 
mentioned being discharged by my Executor hereafter to be 
nominated and appointed; As an acknowledgement of the love 
and care wc my daughter, ye wife of my son William Buswell 
hath manifested toward me. 

I give to my said Daughter Sarah three pounds in money 
to be paid forthwith. 

Item — I give to my son-in law John Gill husband to my 
Daughter Phoebe ten shillings in mone}' to be paid by my 
executor within one year after my death. 

Item — I give to my son Samuel Buswell twenty shillings 
in money to be paid within twelve months after my death. 

Item — I give to my son Phillip Browne, husband of my 
Daughtr Mary, twenty shillings in money and that cow that 
is now, of mine, in his hands, ye money to be paid within 
twelve months after my death, and ye cow to be now set out 
to him, and owned for his owne. 

Item — I give to the three children left by my son Isaac 
twenty shillings apiece in money to be paid to them or their 
Guardian at the age of sixteen yeares, or ye day of marriage. 

Item — I give to my son William Buswell with whom I 
now live in my old age twenty shillings in money to be paid 
within one yeare after my decease. 

I hereby constitute and appoint my Grand-child Isaac 



THF, TUCKER GENEAI.OGV 35 

Buswell, son of my son Samuel Buswell to be my true and 
sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, hereby 
revokeing all other wills formerly by mee made and I hereby 
appoint and desire my loving friend Samuel Fellowes senyr 
and my truley dutyfuU son William Buswell or the longest 
liver of them to be Overseer of this my last Will and take 
care that it be truely observed and performed and to be 
assistant to my sd executor granting you power to act and 
prforme according to my will above mentioned, mentioned if 
my executor doe not act accordmg to my order. 

In wittnesse whereof I ye Isaac Buswell senyr being of 
perfect memory and through God's goodness of sound under- 
standing doe hereby sett my hand and scale. 

The words (or ye longest liver of them) interlined before 
sealeing hereof. 

The marke and scale of 



Isaac Buswell, sr. (seal) 

Read, signed and sealed in presence of 
Nath. Saltonstall, assist. 
Samuel (X) Fellowes, sr. 

His marke. 

Samuel Fellowes made oath in court ye he saw Isack 
Buswell and was present when he signed and declared this to 
be his last Will and Testament and was of a disposing minde. 

Ipswch Court, Sept. 25, '83. 

Attest: Jno Applet, Clers. 

Samuel Fellowes made oath in court and saw Isaac Bus- 
well signe and seale and declare the within written to be his 
last Will and Testament, and that he was then of a disposing 
mind. And allso Nathl Saltonstall doth afernis to ye same as 
is above written. 

Attest at Ipswch Court, 25th Sept. (83). 

John Appleton, Cls. 



36 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

PAGE. 



JOHNi PAGE came to Hingham, Mass. He married 
Mary^ Marsh, daughter of George^ and Ehzabeth Marsh. 

He removed to Haverhill about 1652. 

He died Nov. 23, 1687. His widow died Feb. 15, 
1696-7. 

His estate was divided in 1723. 

CIIILBREN. 

1. John^, baptized July 11, 1641. 

2. Onesiphorus, baptized Nov. 20, 1642. 

3. Benjamin, baptized July 14, 1644 

4. Mary, baptized May 3, 1646. 

5. Joseph^, baptized March 5, 1647-8; m. (ist), Judith 

Guile; m. (2nd), Martha^ (Dow) Heath. 

6. Cornelius, baptized July 15, 1649. 

7. Sarah, baptized July 18, 1651. 

8. Elizabeth, born June 15, 1653, d. July 3, 1653. 
g. Mercy, born April i, 1655. 

10. A son, born March 26, 1658, died same day. 
u. Ephraim, born Feb. 27, 165S-9, d. July 22, 1659. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

JOSEPH^ PAGE, {John^), [son of John^ and Mary^ 
(Marsh) Page,] of Haverhill, Mass., was baptized March 5, 
1647-8; was married on June 21, 1671, to Judith^ Guile 
[daughter of SamueP and Judith^ (Davis) Guile]. She 
was born April 2, 1650. She died April 28, 1672. 

He took the oath of fidelity and allegiance in 1669 
and 1677. 

Joseph^ Page married on December 2, 1673, Mrs. 
Martha- (Dow) Heath, (widow of Joseph Heath) and 
daughter of Thomas' and Phoebe Dow. 

Joseph Page died intestate Feb. 5. 1683-4 in Haver- 
Reference: Histv^ry of Hingham, Mass, (1893) vol. 3, p. 105. 
Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Arae.>bury, Mass-, p. 273. 



THK TUCKER GKNEALOGY 37 

hill. An inventory of estate made April ii, 1684. A dis- 
tribution of his estate was made on Nov. 24, 1707. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Judith^, born April 25, 1672. 

CHILDREN— SKCOND MARRIAGE. 

2. Phoebe, born Nov. 17, 1674; qi. Joseph^ Tucker. 

3. Joseph, born Nov. 23, 1676; killed by the Indians. 

4. "Hannah, born Feb. 5, 1678. 

5. Martha, born Feb. 14, 1680. 

6. Thomas, born April 12, 1683; died June 5, 1683. 

7. Ebenezer, born May 9, 1684; killed by the Indians 

June 24, 1707. 

8. Jude, born 

Estate of Joseph Page. 

To ye Honourable John Appleton Esqr. Judg of ye 
probate of Wills & granting of Letters of administrations in 
ye County of Essex Honoured Sir acording your commition 
to us ye Subscribers bearing Date ye 24th of Nobr 
1707 to make an Equel Distrbution of ye Real Estate of 
Joseph Page Senr Late of Haverhill Decesed acording to ye 
Direction of ye law to witt one third part of sd Estate to ye 
widow of Relect or sd deed Martha Page Alice Parker & 
also to divide ye Remaining too thirds of ye Real Estate of ye 
sd deed to & among ye four Daughters of ye sd deed or thir 
legall Representatives. 

1st. Pursuant thearunto we have Set to ye widow Martha 
Page Alice Parker about four acrs whare ye house Standeth 
bounded at ye northward Corner with a white oak from thence 
Southerly toward christoph Bartlets by ye Lane to a Stake in 
ye fence from thence Joyning to sd bartlet Land to a white 
oakeby 3^6 medow from thence northerly to a great white oake 
Stump from thence norwesterly to ye white oake first men- 
tioned takeing in all sd Pages land between ye land & ye 
medow. 

2nd. we have set of to Phebee Page Alice Tucker about 
four acres of land Lying by land of Christopher Bartlet 
bounded Southerly by land of sd Bartlet with a white oak at 



38 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

ye Westerly Corner from thence northward about Eaight Rods 
to a Stake from thence Easterly to a stake with Stones about it 
by ye Lane from thence to a Willow bush by sd bartlets land 
from thence to ye white oake first mentioned. 

3rd. We have set of Hannah Page Alic Dow about 
four acres of Land Joyning upon sd Phebees Land bounded 
at ye westward Corner with a Stake from thence norward 
about nine Rods another Stake from thence Easterly to a 
Stake & a heap of Stones by ye Lane from thence South- 
erly by sd Lane about eaight Rods to another Stake from 
thence to ye Stake first mentioned & also we have Set of to 
sd Hanah a small peice of medow in ye hither north medow 
bounded Easterly upon ye heaths medow and northerly by ye 
widows thirds to a white oake ner bartlets fence from thence 
Southerly to a maple by ye brook and from thence to ye upland 
upon ye Same Rang and from thence by ye upland to heath 
medow. 

4th. We have Set of To Jude Page about four acer of 
land joyning upon land Set of to sd Hanah bounded at ye 
westerly Corner with a Stake from thence northerl}' abj it Nine 
rods to a white oake with I. P which is ye corner bound of sd 
Pages land from thence easterly to a stake by ye lane from 
thence southerly by said lane about eaigh Rods to another 
stake from thence to ye stake first mentioned and also we have 
set of to ye sd Judea small peice of medow in ye hither 
north medow bounded Easterly by medow set of to sd Hanah 
Dow bounded at ye norward end by a white oake & at ye 
southward end by a maple by ye brook & upon all other 
parts by land & medow of Christopher bartlet. 

5th. We have Set of to martha Page alice Heriman 
about three acres of Land with ye old barne upon it lying upon 
a triangle bounded at ye westward Corner with a white oake 
being ye Corner bound of sd Pages land from thence easterly 
to a stake by ye lane from thence Southerly about thirteen 
Rods by ye lane to a stake from thence to ye white oake first 
mentioned & also we have Set of to ye sd Martha Heriman 
one Commonage in ye Cow Common of haverhill upon 
Decemb ye i8th 1707 three of our selves went upon ye land 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 39 

SO divided and Committed to each one his or her share as it is 
above devided except Hanah Page alis Dow who apeared not 
herself nor any yte did legaly Represent her. 
Haverhill dated Dec. 30th 1707. 

John Hassaltine Samuel Ayer 
Ephraim Roberts James Sanders 

Joseph Kingsbery 



MARSH. 

GEORGE* MARSH, came from Norfolk County, Eng. , 
with Rev. Peter Hobart, in 1635, and settled in Hingham, 
Massachusetts. 

In September, 1635, he drew a house lot on Town 
(North) Street. He married Elizabeth , 

He was a Freeman on March 3, 1636. Selectman in 
1645. 

He died July 2, 1647. His will was made same day. 

CHILDREN-BORN in engi^and. 

1. Thomas* Marsh. 

2. Onesiphorus Marsh. 

3. Elizabeth Marsh. 

4. Mary^ Marsh m. John^ Page. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Marsh, the widow, married (second) in 
November, 1648, Richard Brown of Weymouth. He was 
buried February 4, 1674. She is mentioned in his will. 
She died in 1675. 

References : History of Hingham, Mass. Vol. 3, pp. 56-7. 

Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 60. 

Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of N. E. Vol, 3, p. 154. 

The town of Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., is situated on the 
northeast side of the Merrimac, about eighteen miles from its mouth. 
It is twenty-nine miles from Boston. 



40 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

DOW, 



THOMAS^ DOW was born in England about 1615, 
came to this country about 1640 with his wife Phebe and 
two children. Settled at Salisbury and then removed to 
Haverhill. A grantee of Newbury, Mass. Will dated May 
31, 1654, proved April 8, 1656. Freeman June 22, 1642. 

He died May 31, 1654. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Stephen!^, born March 29, 1642, m. Ann Stacy, or 

Ann Story. 

2. Mary, born April 26, 1644. 

3. Martha^, born Jur.e i, 1648, m. Joseph^ Page. 

4. John. 

5. Thomas, born in Newbury, Mass. 

Mrs. Phebe Dow, the widow, married (second) No- 
vember 20, 1661, at Haverhill, John Eaton. He died 
October 29, 1668. She died November 3, 1672. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

STEPHEN^ DOW, [third son of Thomas^ and Phebe 
Dow], was born March 29, 1642, in Newbury, Mass. He 
married (ist), Sept. 16, 1663, Ann Stacy, or Ann Story, 
who died Feb. 3, 1714-5. Married (2nd), Feb. 7, 1716, 
Mrs. Joannah^ (Corliss) Hutchins (widow), who was born 
April 28, 1650; she died Oct. 29, 1734, in Haverhill. 

Freeman in 1668; Selectrqan 1685; Grand Juror 1692. 



References : Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, 
Mass., pp. 136, 147. 

Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 143. 

On the 27th day of May, lOfiS, a part of Salisbury, Mass., was 
set off and given the name of Amesbury. The general records, town 
proceedings and vital records of the town, begin in 1642. 

On June 2, 1641, Haverhill was set off froin Salisbury and 
established as a separate town. The books containing the vital 
records of the town were commenced in 1658. Congregational 
churches established in 173s and 1744 are now ia existence. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



41 



He died July 3, 1717, in Haverhill, Mass. His will 
recorded at Salem, Mass., July i, 1717; probated July 17, 

1717- 



CHILDREN— FIKST MABBIAGB. 

Ruhamah^, born March 24, 1663-4. 

Samuel, born Jan. 22, 1665-6, at Haverhill. 

Hannah, born July i, 1668, at Haverhill. 

Stephen"^ y born Sept. 10, 1670; m. Mary^ Hutchins. 

Martha, born April i, 1673, at Haverhill. f 

John, born July 13, 1675. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

STEPHEN^ DOW, {Stephen^ Thomas^), [son of 
Stephen^ and Ann (Story) Dow], was born Sept. 10, 1670, 
in Haverhill, Mass.; married Dec. 14, 1697, Mary^ Hutch- 
ins, [daughter of Joseph^ and Joanna" (Corliss) Hutchins], 
who was born March 9, 1679. Her mother was the second 
wife of Stephen^ Dow, 

He died June 17, 1743, in Haverhill. He was a 
carpenter. 



CHILDREN. 

Timothy*, born Sept. 4, i6g8. 
Nathaniel, born Aug. 11, 1699. 
April, born April 18, 1701. 
Elizabeth, born Feb. 29, 1704. 
Richard, born Feb. 15, 1706. 

Johanna*', born Sept. 26, 1709; m. Moses^ Tucker. 
David, born Dec. 25, 1714. 
Jonathan, born Sept. 11, 1718. 
Stephen, born Oct. 13, 1722. 



f Killed by the Indians March 15, 1697. 
Reference : Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, 
Mass., p. 137. 



42 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

STORY OR STACY. 

The town records of Haverhill, Mass., show that on 
Sept. 1 6, 1663, Stephen* Dow {Thomas'^) married Ann 
Storie; and the town records of Salem, Mass., show that 
Stephen' Dow married Ann Stacie on the same day. A 
search among the probate records and land records has 
failed to establish the identity of the first wife of Stephen* 
Dow. 



HUTCHINS. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

JOHN HUTCHINS, was born in England in 1604. In 
May, 1638, he came in the ship "Bevis," and settled at New- 
bury, Mass. He was Selectman in 1669-70; Constable in 
1663-4, and built the first church in town. He married 
Frances. In 1692 she was arrested for being a witch, but 
was never tried. She was brought before the Court in 
1653 for wearing a silk hood, but " upon testnnony of her 
being brought up above the ordinary way," she was dis- 
charged. 

He received a grant of land in Narragansett Town- 
ship, No. 3, (now Amherst, N. H.,) for services performed 
in King Philip's War. 

He removed to Haverhill, Mass., and died there Feb. 
6. 1685, aged "jy. She died April 5, 1694, aged 84. 

His will was probated March 30, 1686. 



CHILDREN. 

William^, born — 

Joseph'^, born Nov. 15, 1640; m. Joanna^ Corliss. 
Benjamin, born May 15, 1641. 
Levi, born July 16, 1647. 
Elizabeth, born 
Samuel, born — 



References : Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 249. 

Bodge's Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 431. 

Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury,Mass., p. 137. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 43 

SECOND GENERATION. 

JOSEPH^ HUTCHINS, (son of Johni and Frances 
Hutchins), was born Nov. 15, 1640. A resident of Haver- 
hill. Occupation a farmer. Dec. 29, 1669, he married 
Joanna^ Corliss [daughter of George^ and Joanna^ (Davis) 
Corliss], who was born at Haverhill, April 28, 1650. 

He took the oath of allegiance Nov. 28, 1650. He 
died April 19, 1689. 

CIIILDHEI«r. 

1. John, born May 5, 1671. 

2. Joanna, born Sept. 27, 1673. 

3. Frances, born June 7, 1676. ^ 

4. Mary^ , born March g, 1678; m. Stephen^ Dow. 

5. Andrew, born May 22, 1681. 

6. Samuel, born Aug. 22, 1682. 

7. Joseph, born May 29, 1689. 

On Feb. 7, 171 5-6, Joanna^ (Corliss) Hutchins mar- 
ried (second), Stephen^ Dow of Haverhill, she being his 
second wife. She died Oct. 29, 1734. 



CORLISS. 



GEORGE^ CORLISS (or Corless), was born in 1617. 
In 1639 he emigrated from Devonshire, England, to Amer- 
ica, settling at Newbury, Mass. He was a farmer. In 1645 
he removed to Haverhill, Mass., where, Oct. 26, 1645, he 
married Joanna^ Davis, a daughter of Thomas^ and Christian 
Davis of Haverhill, Mass. He held several important offices 
in the town. January 22, 1648, was chosen selectman; March 
26, 1650, Constable; Jan. 2, 1653, Selectman, to which 
office he was re-elected Oct. 12, 1657, March i, 1669-70, 



References : Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, 
Mass., pp. 113, 114. 

Corliss Genealogy; Corliss, A. W., 1875. 

Pioneers of Massachusetts. Pope, Chas. H., p. 118. 



44 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

and Feb. 24, 1679. His will is dated Oct. 18, 1686, and 
he died the following day. Will probated Nov. 23, 1686. 
His widow survived. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Mary^, born Sept 6, 1646. 
2 John, born March 4, 1647-8. 

3. Joanna^, born April 28, 1650; m. Joseph^ Hutchins. 

4. Martha, born June 2, 1652. 
5 Deborah, born June 6, 1655. 

6. Ann, born Nov, 8, 1657. 

7. Huldah, born Nov. 18, 1661. 

8. Sarah, born Feb. 23, 1663-4. 



DAVIS. 

THOMAS^ DAVIS of Haverhill, Mass., was born about 
1603, near Marlboro, England. He came in the " James " 
April 5, 1635. He arrived in Newbury, Mass., in 1641, 
and the next year settled in Haverhill, Mass. He married 
Ciiristian . 

Was Selectman in 1646 and 1648; Freeman June 2, 
1 64 1. Occupation a mason. 

He died at Haverhill July 27, 1683. An inventory of 
his estate was filed Oct. 23, 1683. 

She died April 7, 1668. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Joanna; married Oct. 26, 1645, George' Corliss. 

2. Joseph; died Sept. 15, 1671. 



FARNSWORTH. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

MATTHIAS- FARNSWORTH came to Lynn., Mass., 
before 1657. He was a farmer. He married Mary^ Farr 
[daughter of George^ and Ann^ (Whitmore) Farr], of Lynn; 

References: Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., 
pp. 113, 124. 

Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 133. 



THE lUCKER GENEALOGY 45 

removed to Groton about 1660, was an original proprietor. 
When King Philip's war broke out and the town of Groton 
was burned, they were compelled to flee to Concord, where 
they resided two years, returning to Groton to rebuild on the 
old site. He was chosen constable and selectman. 

At a meeting of the town held Nov. 27, 1664, the fol- 
lowing vote was passed: " Yt, Mathias ffarnsworth shall 
have forty pole of land to be laid out agaynst his house 
next to James his broke for a building place, provided (it) 
do not predgedse the hieway. " 

He was frequently chosen to serve on committees of 
church and town. 

Mathias Farnsworth was credited on Sept. 28, 1675, 
for services performed under Major Simon Willard, with 
£ o, I2s, 6d, and on June 24, 1735, Jonathan Farnsworth 
(son of Mathias Farnsworth), drew lot 3 in Narragansett 
Township, No. 6, for services performed by his father in the 
Narragansett campaign. 

His will is dated Jan. 15, 1688-9. He died Jan. 21, 
1689, aged yy. Inventory dated Feb. 4, 1688-9. Occu- 
pation a weaver. 

His widow made her will on Dec. 5, 17 16, and it was 
proved March 7, 17 17. In it she bequeaths to her son. 
Samuel Farnsworth, her household effects and her " Great 
Bible." 

CHILDBEJV. 

1. Elizabeth^, born in 1647. 

2. Matthias, born in 1649. 

3. John, born in 1651. 

4. Benjamin, born in 1653. 

5. Joseph, born in Nov., 1657, at Lynn, Mass. 

6. Mary, born Oct. 11, 1660. 

7. Sarah^, born in 1664. 

8 Samuel^, born Oct. 8, 1669; m. Mary-^ Whitcomb. 
g. Abigail, born Jan. 17, 1671. 
10. Jonathan, born June i, 1675. 



46 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

SECOND GENERATION. 

SAMUEL* FARNSWORTH {Matthias^), [son of 
Matthias^ and Mary^ (Farr) Farnsworth], was born in 
Groton, Oct. 8, 1669. He married Dec. 12, 1706, Mary^ 
(Whitcomb) Willard [daughter of Josiah" and Rebecca^ 
(Waters) Whitcomb], of Lancaster, and widow of Simon 
Willard. He was admitted to the church in Groton July 
27, 1718, He was a member of the garrison at Groton, 
Mass., March 17, 169 1-2. He removed to " Turkey Hills," 
now a part of Lunenburg, Mass., where he died in 1727. 

CHILDBED. 

1. Mary3, born in Kiugston, Sept. 13, 1707. 

2. Samuel, born in Groton, June 29, 1709. 

3. DaviiP, born in Groton, Aug. 4, 171 1. Married 

Hannah* Hastings. 

4. Abigail, born in Groton in 1713. 

5. Stephen, born in Lunenburg in 1715. 

6. Joshua, born in Lunenburg in 1721. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



LIEUT. DAVID^ FARNSWORTH {Samuel^ Mat- 
thias^), [son of Samuel^ and Mary^ (Whitcomb) Farns- 
worth], was born in Groton, April 4, 171 1. He was mar- 



Mary^ Whitcomb married (first), Simon=^ Willard (eon of 
Henrv' and Mary Willard of Groton). He was born Oct. 8, 1676. 
Children : Aaron Willard, born in Jan., 1701; Moses Willard, born 
in 1702-3. 

References: N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 43, p. 374. 

Farnsworth Memorial (1897), pp. 27 to 45, 46, 294. 

The Early Records of the Town of Lunenburg, Mass., [1719- 
1764), pp. 27, 56, 57, 80. 

The Proprietor's Records of the Town of Lunenburg, Mass., 
(1729-1833), pp. 113, 114, 216 

Bodice's "Soldiers in King Philip's War," pp. 121 and 436. 

Saunderson's History of Charlestown, N. H., pp. 14 and 325. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 47 

ried on Aug. 15, 1735, to Hannah* Hastings, [/ohii'^, 
[ohn^, Thomas'^), [daughter of John^ and Sarah* (Fiske) 
Hastings of Lunenburg], who was born in Watertown, Jan. 
24, 17 16-7. One of the original settlers of Charlestown, 
N. H., in 1740. Removed to Hollis, N. H, 

From 1750 to 1V60 he was town surveyor. On April 
20, 1757, he was taken prisoner by a party of seventy 
French and Indians and carried to Canada. He was after- 
wards redeemed and returned to Lunenburg. In an alarm 
list made Jan. 26, 1775, appears the name of Lieut. David 
Farnsworth, of Hollis, N. H. 

He removed after the Revolutionary War to the north- 
ern part of Vermont. 

CHILDBEX. 

I. Hannah*, born in 1736. 



Mary, born in 1739. 

Eunice, born in 1741. 

Relief^, born in 1749; married Reuben* Tucker. 

Samuel, born in 1750 at Charlestown, N. H. 

David, born 



FARR. 

GEORGE FARR, born about 1594; came to America 
in the summer of 1629. He is named in the company's 
second letter of instruction to Governor Winthrop in these 
words : " As is also the charge of one George Farr now 
sent over to the shipwrights formerly sent." The next year 
he appears as one of the fifty families in Lynn. He was a 
farmer and settled in the eastern part of Essex Street. He 
was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. On the 15th of the 
second month, 1657, George Farr. aged 6T), testified that 
"Black Bill, or Duke William, so called, was the true 

David^ Farnsworth was a drummer from Hollis, 'N. H., at the 
Lexington Alarm; also enlisted Oct. 6, 1775, as drummer in Capt. 
Reuben Dow's company of Col. William Prescott's Regiment. 

For an account of " Hollis, N. H., in the War of the Revolu- 
tion:" see N. E. H. & G. Register. 1876. Vol. XXX., p. 290. 

Reference : Farnsworth Memorial, pp. 296, 298. 



48 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

owner of Nahant (so far as ever heard), and that Thomas 
Dexter bought Nahant of him. He had a grant of land in 
Lynn in 1638. On Feb. 16, 1644, he married (first), Ann 
Whitmore, daughter of John Whitmore. She was born 
about 1 62 1. He married (second), Ehzabeth Stowers 
(daughter of Nicholas and Amy Stowers), born in 1607. 
June 2( 1684, she deposed that she had lived fifty- four 
years in Lynn on a tract of land given her husband, George 
Farr, by the townsmen of Lynn, 

He died Oct. 24, 1662, aged 68, His will was proved 
Nov, 26, 1662, His widow, Elizabeth, was buried March 
II, 1687. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John^. 

2. Lazarus. Died Oct 29, 1692, 

3. Benjamin. Died Dec. 9, 1669. 

4. Joseph. 

5. Mury^, born Jan. 6, 1644; m. Matthias* Farnsworth. 

6. Martha, born Feb. 25, 1646. 

7. Elizabeth. 

8. Sarah, 

9. Phebe, born in May, 1650. 



WHITMORE 

JOHN WHITMORE first appears in Wethersfield, 
Conn., in 1639. He then removed to Stamford, Conn., and 
was killed by the Indians in 1648. 

CHILDREN. 

Thomas^, born in 1615; the ancestor of the Wetmores. 
Ann-, born in 1621; married George Farr. 
Mary 2, born in 1623. 
Francis, born in 1625, 
John, born in 1627, 

Reference: Pioneers of Massachusetts (Pope), p. 161, 

Whitmore, W, H., Record of the Descendants of Francis Whil- 
more of Cambridge, Mass, Boston, 1855. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 49 



WHITCOMB. 

JOHN WHITCOMB of Dorchester, Mass. Removed 
to Scituate in 1633. In August, 1643, he was a member of 
the miHtary company of Scituate, Mass. A freeman of 
Plymouth Colony June 3, 1652. Soon after he removed to 
Lancaster. 

In 1654 Richard Linton, John Whitcomb, Lawrence 
Waters and others petitioned the General Court to appoint 
men to lay out the town boundaries of Lancaster. John 
Whitcomb was suggested as one of the names in said peti- 
tion to be appointed to order the prudential affairs. 

He died Sept. 24, 1662. Frances, his widow, died on 
May 17, 1 67 1. 

CHILDREX. 



Catharine. 

Abigail. 

John. 

/osiah^, born about 1638; m, Rebecca'^ Waters. 

Job. 

Robert. 

Mary. 

Jonathan. 



SECOND GENERATION, 



JOSIAH2 WHITCOMB {John), [son of John and 
Frances Whitcomb], born in Scituate, Mass., about 1638. 
He married in Lancaster Nov. 4, 1664, Rebecca^ Waters 
[daughter of Lawrence and Ann^ (Linton) Waters of 
Watertown, Lancaster and Charlestown]. She was born 
in April, 1640. 

He was a member of the garrison at Lancaster March 
18, 1691-2. Josiah Whitcomb, Sr., was made commander 

Reference : N. E. H. &; G. Register, Vol. 4, p. 2S7- 



50 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

of a garrison at Lancaster on April 20, 1704. He was 
selectman of Lancaster May 29, 1706, and gave liberally 
to the church. Josiah Whitcomb represented Lancaster in 
the General Court in 1710. 

He resided in what afterwards became Bolton, and died 
March 21, 17 18, aged 80. His wife died in 1726. 

A slab marking his grave reads : 

*< Here lies 

the body of 
losiAH Whet 
COMB Sen : D 
eseased in H 

IS 80 YEAR. 

A foot stone : 

I. W. DIED 

March the 
21, 1718, 

His will dated March 20, 171 8, was proved April 22, 
1 7 18. His widow made her will in 1720; proved in 1726. 

CHILDREN. 



I 
2 

3 

4 

5 
6 

7 
8 

9 

ID 
II 



Josiah', born Sept. 12, 1665; died same day. 
Josiah, born Nov. 7, 1666. 
David, born Feb. 20, 1668. 
Rebecca, born Sept. 12, 1671. 
J >bannah, born Jan. 8, 1673-4. 

Mary'^, born ; married Samuel^ Farnsvvorth. 

Hezekiah, born Sept. 14, 1681. 

Deborah, born Dec. 26, 1683. 

Damaris. 

Abigail, born March 13, 1687-8. 

Eunice. 



Reference : N. E. H. & Q. Register, Vol. 43, p. 371. 



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WATERS- 



LAWRENCE^ WATERS, settled in Watertown, 
Mass., about 1634, where he made a purchase in 1636-7. 
He married Anna- Linton, daughter of Richard* Linton. 
Lawrence Waters was a carpenter, and in 1653 was one 
of the first settlers of Lancaster, Mass., where he built 
the first house. He and his wife were warned for having 
danced. He was a soldier in the garrison at Lancaster 
in 1675 and earlier. 

He received a grant of a homestead of eight acres, 
four acres of plow land, four acres of meadow, twenty-five 
acres of upland, twelve acres of upland, and a farm of 105 
acres of upland. 

He was blind in 1676. Removed to Charlestown, 
where he died Dec. 9, 1687, aged 85 years. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Lawrence^, born Feb. 14, 1634-5. 

2. Sarah, born Dec. 7, 1636. 

3. Mary, born Jan. 27, 1637-8. 

4. Rebecca, born in 1639; died in 1640. 

5. Rebecca'^; born in April 1640; m. Josiah^ Whitcomb. 

6. Daniel, born Feb. 6, 1641-2. 

7. Stephen, born Jan. 24, 1642-3. 

8. Joseph, born April 29, 1647. 
g. Jacob, born March i, 1649. 

10. Rachel, born March I, 1649; died March 31, 1649. 

11. Samuel, born Jan. 14, 1651. 

12. Johanna, born March 26, 1653. 

13. Ephraim, born Jan. 27, 1655. 



Reference : Watertown Records, Land Grants and Posses- 
sions, pp. 42 and 43. 

The Birth, Marriage and Death Register of Lancaster, Mass., 
1643 to 1850. H. S. Nourse (1890), p. 10. 



52 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

LINTON. 

RICHARD' LINTON was of Medford, Mass, in 1630, 
Watertown in 1638, and one of the first settlers of Lan- 
caster in 1643, where he died March 30, 1665. Inventory 
filed June 20, 1665. 

The Lancaster inhabitants adopted a covenant on Nov. 
28, 1653. Among the signers were John Whitcomb, John 
Prescott, Richard Linton and Lawrence Waters. 

" A list containing the several estates of the planters 
who by covenant, according to the rules thereof, have 
engaged that it may thereby be known what shall be their 
proportion of land, which by covenant every planter may 
make claim unto, in a second, third or other division of 
land, and also of meadow, within the town of Lancaster," 
dated in 1654. 

John Prescott £ 366 15s od. 

Thomas Sawyer 1 10 

John Whitcomb 241 

Lawrence Waters 277 

Richard Linton 90 

Together with 24 others. . . . 

^4,701 17s od. 

CHILDREN. 

Anne''', born ; married Lawrence Waters. 



Reference : Marvin's History of Lancaster, p. 53. 

Richard^ Linton m. Elizabeth 

Ann- Lmton m. Lawrence Waters. 
ISamuel Waters m Mary Hudson. 
Abigail Waters m. Aaron Clev-eland. 
Rev. Aaron Cleveland m. Susan I'orter. 
Rev. Aaron Cleveland va. Abiah Hyde, 
William Cleveland m. Margaret Falley. 
Richard Falley Cleveland ni. Anne Neal. 
Stephen Grover Cleveland m. Frances C Folsom. 
President of the U. .S. 1885-89, and 1893-97, 



THK TUCKER GENEALOGY 53 

HASTINGS. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

DEACON THOMAS 1 HASTINGS, aged 29, and wife 
Susanna, aged 25, embarqued at Ipswich, England, April 
10, 1634, in the "Elizabeth," and settled in Watertown, 
Mass. He was a Freeman May 6, 1635, Selectman in 
1638, 1643, 1650 and 1671; Town Clerk in 1671, 1677, 
and 1680; Representative in 1673. His wife Susanna died 
Feb 2, 1650, and he married (second), in April, 1651, Mar- 
garet^ Cheney, daughter of William^ and Margaret Cheney 
of Roxbury. 

Thomas Hastings had a homestead of fourteen acres 
granted to him. Later he received a grant of three acres 
of upland and purchased four and one-half more acres of 
Edmond Lewis. Then he received a grant of two acres of 
meadow and purchased two acres of John Stowers. After- 
wards he had a grant of twenty-five acres of upland. 
Then a grant of two acres of plowed land and two acres 
of meadow. His last grant was a farm of seventy-one 
acres. 

He died in 1685 aged 80. 

Thomas Hastings' will was made March 12, 1683, and 
proved Sept, 7, 1685. 

CHILDBEN— SECOND mabriage. 

2. Thomas, born July i, 1652. 

2. John^ , born March i, 1653-4; m. Abigail* Hammond. 

3. William, born Aug. 8, 1655. 

4. Joseph, born Sept. 12, 1657. 

5. Benjamin, born Aug. g, 1659. 

6. Nathaniel, born Sept. 25, 1661. 

7. Hepzibah, born Jan. 31, 1663-4. 

8. Samuel, born March 12, 1665-6. 



Reference : Watertown Records, Land Grants and Posses- 
sions (1894), pp. 19 and 20. 



V 



54 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



SECOND GENERATION. 



JOHN2 HASTINGS {Thomas), [son of Thomas^ and 
Mar^aret^ (Cheney) Hastings], was born in Watertown, 
Mass., March i, 1653-4. On June 18, 1679, he married 
Abigail* Hammond [daughter of Lieut. John^ and Abigail 
Hammond]. She was born June 21, 1656; died April 7, 
1718. 

He was a member of Captain Nathaniel Davenport's 
Company in King Philip's War, 1675, and on Aug. 24, 
1676, made an assignment of his wages due and unpaid for 
services performed in said war. 

He died March 28, 1718. 



CHILDREN. 

Abigail, born Dec. 8, 1679. 

John^ , baptized Dec. 4, 1687; m. Sarah* Fiske. 

Elizabeth, baptized Dec. 4, 1687. 

Hepzibah, baptized Dec. 4, 1687. 

William, baptized July 13, 1690. 

Samuel, baptized July 10, 1698. 

Joseph, baptized July 10, 1698. 

Thomas, born Sept. 26, 1697; baptized July 10, 1698. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

JOHNS HASTINGS {John,'', Thomas^) [son of John'^ 
and Abigail* (Hammond) Hastings], baptized Dec. 4, 1687. 
He was married on Nov. 2, 1702, to Susanna Bemis {John^ , 
foseph^), daughter of Jo'nn and Mary (Harrington) Bemis, 
who was born Dec. 12, 1692. She died Nov. 15, 1703. 
He married (second), Jan. 8, 1706-7, Sarah* Fiske 
{Nathaniel^ , Nathan^, Nathaniel'^), [daughter of Nathaniel^ 



Reference: N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 39, p. 259; Vol.43, 
P- 279. 

Bond's Historj' and Genealogies of Watertown, Mass., 285, 28G, 
789 and 790. 



I'HE TUCKER GENEALOGY 55 

and Mary^ (Warren) Fiske], was born July 4, 1684. Re- 
moved to Lunenburg. 

He died previous to 1747. 

CHILDREX— SECOND MABBIAGE. 

1. Sarah*, born Nov. 8, 1707. 

2. Susanna, born April 4, 1710, 

3. John, born Feb. 4, 171 1-2. 

4. Nathaniel, born June g, 1714. 

5. Hannah'^, born Jan, 24, 1716-7; m. David^ Farns- 

worth. 

6. Eunice, born Sept. 3, 1722. 

7. Mary, born July 6, 1731, in Lunenburg. 



CHENEY. 



WILLIAM CHENEY* was born in 1603, and settled 
in Roxbury, Mass., having, on July 18, 1639, purchased of 
Nicholas and Richard Parker a house and forty acres of 
ground, and on Sept. 30, 1639, purchased of Walter Black- 
bourne a house and sixty-one and a half acres of ground. 

He was a member of the militia company of Roxbury 
in 1647. 

In 1645 the Roxbury Free School was founded and 
William Cheney subscribed and guaranteed the sum of 
eight shillings per year. Later he was one of the trustees 
of the Roxbury Latin School. 

'' The school houses were crude buildings and out of 
repair, often tumbling down. 



VIZ 



The ancestor of Bishop Charles Edward Cheney of Chicago, 

1. William^ Cheney m. Margaret. 

2- Joseph'^ Cheney tn. Hannah Thurston, 

2. Joseph* Cheney m Hannah 

4. Capt. Jo^eph* Cheney m. Abitjail Warren. 

5. flathan^ Cheney m. Lavinia Shumway. 

6, Dr. Ephraim Warren" m. Altie Wheeler, 

7, Rt. Rev. Charles Edward' Cheney, born Feb, 13, 1836, 
m. April 2;, i860, Clara Emma Griswold. In i860 he accepted a call 
to Christ Church, Chicago. On Dec 14, 1873, he was consecrated a 
Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church. 



56 THE TUCKER GENEALOGV 

The town record in 1652 reads : 

"The feoffees agreed with Daniel Welde that he pro- 
vide convenient benches with forms, with tables for the 
scholars, and a convenient seate for the schoolmaster, a 
Deske to put the Dictionary on and shelves to lay up books. " 

The schoolmaster : 

" Promised and engaged to use his. best endeavor both 
by precept and example to instruct in all Scholastic morall 
and Theologicall discipline the children so far as they be 
capable all A. B. C. Darians excepted." 

In 1 68 1 the Roxbury teacher wrote : 

"Of the inconveniences [in the school house] I shall 
mention no other but the confused and shattered and nastie 
posture that it is in, not fitting for to reside in, the glass 
broke, and thereupon very raw and cold; the floor very 
much broken and torn up to kindle fires, the hearth spoiled, 
the seats some burned and others out of kilter that one had 
well-nigh as goods keep school in a hog stie as in it.'' 

In 1654-5 William Cheney was chosen constable, and 
on Jan. 13, 1656-7 he was chosen as one of the selectmen 
of the town. His occupation was that ot a planter. 

He was admitted to the church, of which the Rev. 
John Eliot was pastor, on January 5, 1664-5. 

On May 23, 1666, he was made a freeman. 

He died in Roxbury on the 30th day of June, 1667, at 
the age of 63, leaving a widow, Margaret, who afterwards 
married a Mr. Burge. He died before March, 1679-80. 

William Cheney's will, dated April 30, 1667, was 
written by Rev. John Eliot, and in it he names his son-in- 
law Thomas Hastings as one of his executors. The in- 



References : N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 16, p. 164, for copy 
of will. 

Records of Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Roxbury, Mass. 

Report of Record Commissioners of Boston, Document 114, 
p- 21,2. , 

The Cheney Genealogy by Rev. Charles H, Pope, pp. 17-34. 

Norfolk County, Mass., Journal, Vol. 2, p. G6. 

Thornton's Lives of is^ac Heath and John Bowles. 



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ventory of the estate was taken July lo, 1667, and 
amounted to ;^886 lis 4d. 

On the "24th 3 mo. 1674 Margaret Cheany widow 
having been long bound by Satan under a melancholick 
distemper (above 10 or 11 years) wch made her wholly 
neglect her Calling & live mopishly, this day gave thanks to 
God for loosing her chain, & confessing and bewailing her 
sinful yielding to temptation." 

She died July 2 or 3, 1686. Her will was probated 
Sept. 23, 1686. 



CHILDEEK. 



I 
2 

3 

4 
5 
6 

7 
8 



m. Thomas^ Hastings. 



Ellen, born in 1626. 

Margaret'^ , born ■ 

Thomas. 

William. 

John, born Sept. 29, 1639; died soon. 

John, born Sept. 25, 1640. 

Mehitable, born June i, 1643. 

Joseph, born June 6, 1647. 



HAMMOND, 



FIRST GENERATION. 



THOMAS^ HAMMOND, of Lavenham, Suffolk Co., 
England, was married on May 14, 1573, to Rose Trippe. 
He died Nov. 24, 1589. 



CHII/DBEN. 

Elizabeth^, baptized April i, 1574. 
Wllliatn'^, baptized Oct. 30, 1575; in. 
Rose, baptized April 22, 157S. 
Martha, baptized Nov. 6, 1579 
Thomas, baptized Jan. g. 1586. 
Marie, baptized July 7, 1587. 
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Elizabeth 



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58 THE TITCKER GENEALOGV 



SECOND GENERATION. 



WILLIAM^ HAMMOND {Thomas')., [son of Thomas 
and Rose (Trippe) Hammond], was born and married in 
England. With his wife, EHzabetii, and children, he em- 
barked at Ipswich in the "Francis" in April, 1634. He 
settled in Watertown, Mass. Freeman May 25, 1636; 
selectman in 1648. He died Oct. 8, 1662, aged 90. His 
widow died Sept. 14, 1674. 

His will was dated July i, 1662, and proved Dec, 16, 
1662. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. William^, baptized Sept. 20, 1607. 

2. Anne, baptized Nov. ig, 1609. 

3. John*, baptized Dec. 5, 161 1; m. Sarah — — — 

4. Anne, baptized July 14, 1616. 

5. Thomas, baptized Sept. 17, 1618. 

6. Elizabeth, born — — ^ i6ig. 

7. Sarah, born in 1624. 

8. John, born July 2, 1626. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



LIEUT. JOHN HAMMOND {William, Thomas), [son 
of William and Elizabeth Hammond], was born in Eng- 
land July 2, 1626. He came with his father in the " Fran- 
cis " in 1634. Married (ist), Abigail Salter, [daughter of 
George and Ann Elizabeth Salter of Dedham, England]. 
She died about 1663. Married (2nd), in 1664, Sarah 
Nichols of Charlestown, Mass. She died Jan. 14, 1688. 
Married (3rd), Widow Prudence Cotton. She was a 
daughter of Jonathan Wade of Ipswich, Mass. , and mar- 
ried (ist), Dec. 28, 1659, Dr. Anthony Crosby, son of 



Reference: Bond's Genealogies and Historj' of Watertown, 
Mass., p. 269. 

N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 48, p. 128; Vol. 55, pp. 107, 108. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 59 

Widow Constance Crosby, of Ipswich. After his death she 
married Rev. Seaborn Cotton of Hampton. 

He was a soldier in King PhiHp"s War at the garrison 
at Wrentham, Nov. 20, 1675. Jan. 25, 1675-6, he was 
paid £2 6s 3d. At a later date, in the same year, 
he received £2 2s, and on Aug. 24, 1676, he was paid 
£2 8s. He died Nov. 23, 1709. His will was dated Nov. 
18, 1709. Inventory taken Nov. 29, and amounting to 
£<^6i 8s, and will proved Dec. 9, 1709. Lieut. John 
Hammond was the richest man in the town. His tomb- 
stone in Watertown bears the title " Lieut.'' 

CHILDREN— BT FIRST WIFE. 

1. John, born Feb. 3, 1653-4; ^^^'^ Oct. i, 1659. 

2. Elizabeth, born May 6, 1655. 

3. Abigaii, born June 21, 1659; m. John Hastings. 

4. John, born about 1661-2. 

CHILDH15N -BY SRCONS wife. 

5. Sarah, born in 1666; died Sept. 11, 1674. 

6. Hannah, born July 25, 1669; died Feb. 18, 1669-70 

7. Hannah, born about 1673. 

8. Nathaniel, born July, 1677; died in Feb., 1677-78. 

9. Samuel, born Feb. 25, 1679. 
10. Hepzibah, born about 1681-2. 



FISKE. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

NATHANIEL^ FISKE {Nathaniel, William, Robert, 
Simon, Simon, William, Symond), [son of Nathaniel and 
Alice (Henel) Fiske], was born in Weybred, Suffolk County, 

Robert Fiske was the ancestor of several noted Americans, viz: 

Mary Abigfail Dodge, " Gail Hamilton." 

James Fiske, Jr., the noted financier. 

John Fiske, the eminent historian. 

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), Democratic candidate 
for President in i860. 

Symond Fiske was Lord of the Manor of Stadbaugh, in Lax- 
field, Suffolk County, England. 



60 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

England. He married Doroth}' Symonds (daughter of John 
Symonds), of Wendham. There is a tradition in the 
family that he died on the voyage to New England. 

CHILUREJiT. 

1. John^, born about i6ig. 

2. Nathan^ , born in England; m. Susanna - — — - 

3. Esther, born in England. 

4. Martha, born in England. 



SECOND GENKRATION. 

NATHAN^ FISKE, [son of Nathaniel and Dorothy 
(Symonds) Fiske], was born in England about 161 5. He 
married Susanna . 

He settled in Watertown as early as 1642. He was 
admitted freeman May to, 1643, and was selectman in 
1673. 

In 1644 he was proprietor of one lot of nine acres. 
This was the lot in the town plot granted to R. Frake on 
the north side of the Sudbury Road, opposite to A, Browne. 

He died June 21, 1676. His will, dated two days 
before his death, bequeaths : 

"To Sonne Nathan 303, he being already thorow the 
mercy of God well provided for with my help formerly. 
2nd To Sonne John Fiske, dwelling house, barn, &c. 4a. of 
upland upon the little playne and 10 ac of meadow in tiie 
meadow commonly called Thatcher's Meadow & c. 

3rd To my Sonne David and Nathaniel Fiske 13 a of 
my land lying in the further pUiyne to be equally divided 
between them, 

4 daughter; Sarah Gale; 

5, My oldest sons Nathan and John to be Exr's." 

1. Nathan'', born Oct. 17, 1642. 

2. John, born Aug. 25, 1647. 



TlIK TUCKER GENEALOGY 61 



3. David, born April 29, 1650. 

4. NathanieP, born July 12, 1653; m, Mrs. Mar)' (War- 

ren) Child. 

5. Sarah, born 1656. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



NATHANIEL^ FISKE {Nathan", Nathaniel), [son 
of Nathan'^ and Susanna Fiske], was born in Watertovvn 
July 12, 1653. 

He was married on April 13, 1677, to Mrs. Mary'^ 
(Warren) Child, {Daniel^, John^), [daughter of Daniel"^ 
and Mary^ (Barron) Warren], who was born in Water- 
town Nov. 29, 165 I. His occupation was that of a weaver. 

On Sept. 3, 1675, he was credited with £\ 13s od for 
services performed in Capt. Daniel Henchman's Company 
in King- Philip's War. 

She died May 12, 1734. He died in Sept., 1735. 

His will is dated June 10, 1735, and proved Oct. 3, 
1735. He bequeaths " to children of my son Nathaniel, 
deceased, and to children of son John equally amongst 
them money from debts due to be divided in five equal 
shares. To 3 daughters, Hannah Biglow, Sarah Hastings, 
and Elizabeth Flagg, to each one share, to children of 
daughter Lydia Harrington, had by her former husband, 
John Warren, one share; to children of daughter Abigail 
Flagg deceased one share — To children of daughter Mary 
Knapp deceased, nothing considering what I did for their 
mother in her lifetime. To my daughter-in-law Mary 
Child — As a requital for her care and good service." 

Mary Wan-en married (ist), John Child on May 39, 1668. He 
died Oct. 15, 1676. 

Reference: " Soldier.s in King Philip's War," by Rev. Geo. 
M. Bodge, p. 52. 

Middlesex I'robate Record, Vol. 20, p. 210. 



62 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



CHILDHEX, 

Nathaniel*, born June 9, 1678. 

Hannah, born Aug. 29, 1680. 

John, born March 17, 1682-3. 

Sarah^, born July 4, 1684; m. Joha^ Hastings. 

Lydia, born Dec. 2, 1687. 

Mary, baptized April 20, 1690. 

Elizabeth, born June 24, 1692. 

Abigail, born Aug. 28, 1698. 



WARREN. 

FIRST GEXER.^TIOX. 

JOHN WARREN came to Watertown, Mass., in 1630. 
He was freeman May 18, 163 1, and selectman from 1636 to 
1640. He married Margaret . She died Nov. 6, 1662. 

In 1635 he was appointed on a committee to lay out 
all highways and see that they were repaired. In October, 
165 I, Thomas Arnold and he were each fined 20 shillings 
for an offense against the laws concerning baptism. March 
14, 1658-9, " he was to be warned for not attending pub- 
lic worship, but ' Old Warren ' is not to be found in 
town." 

April 4, 1654, he was fined for neglect of public w^or- 
ship fourteen Sabbaths, each 5 shillings, ^3 los. 

May 27, 1 66 1, the houses of " Old Warren and Good- 
man Hammond were ordered to be searched for Quakers." 

John Warren held several tracts of land in Water- 
town, viz : 

A homestead of twelve acres; nine acres of upland; 
three acres of meadow; thirteen acres of plow land; thirteen 



Reference : Probate Records, Vol. %, p. 345. 
Bond's Genealogies and History of Watertown, Mass., pp. 619, 
620 and 960. 

Watertown Records, Land Grants and Possessions, pp. 42 
and 43. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 63 

acres of meadow; sixteen and one-half acres of upland; 
sixty acres of upland; and a farm of 162 acres of upland. 

His will, dated Nov. 30, 1667, was proved Dec. 17, 
1667. 

He died Dec. 13, 1667, aged 82. 

CHILDBEX. 

1. John^, born in 1622. 

2. Mary. 

3. D-miel^ \ married Mary' Barron. 

4. Elizabeth^, born in 1628. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

DANIEL^ W-\RREN, [son of John' and Margaret 
Warren], was born in England in 1628. He was married 
in Watertown, Mass., on Dec 10, 1650, to Mary^ Barron, 
(daughter of Ellis' and Grace Barron). She died Feb. 13. 
1 71 5-6. He served in King Philip's War, and assigned his 
wages for services performed in the militia to the town of 
Watertown, in payment of taxes August 24, 1676. He took 
the oath of fidelity in 1652. Was selectman for twelve 
years — 1682 to 1694. 

CniLDREX. 

1. Mary^ , bora Nov, 29, 1651; m Nathaniel^ Fiske. 

2. Daniel, born Oct, 6, 1653, 

3. Sarah, born July 4, 1658. 

4. Susanna, born Dec. 26, 1663. 

5. John, born March 5, 1665-6. 

6. Joshua, born July 4, 1668. 

7. Grace, born March 14, 1671-2. 



BARROR 



ELLIS' BARRON, of Watertown, Mass. He was a 
freeman June 2, 1641, constable in 1658, selectman from 

References : N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 43, p. 279. 



64 THE TUCKER GP:NEAL0GV 

1668 to 1673. Married (ist), Grace , Dec. 14, 1648. 

He married (2nd), Mrs. Hannah Havvl<ins, [widow of 
Timothy Hawkins]. He had a grant of a homestead of 
ten acres. 

He died Oct. 30, 1676. His will is dated Oct 26, 
1676, and proved Dec. 19, 1676. Inventory, ^"139. 





CIIIJ^UEEX— FIKST MAKKIAGK. 


I. 


Ellis2. 


2 


Mary^; married Daniel^ Warren. 


3- 


Susanna. 


4- 


Hannah. 


5 


John. 


6. 


Sarah, born July 24, 1640. 


7- 


Moses, born March 4, 1643. 


8. 


Peter. 




RUGGLES. 




FIRST GENERATION. 



THOMAS RUGGLES, of Naming, Essex County, 
England, and of Roxbury, Mass., was born in Sudbury, 
Suffolk County, England, in 1584. He was married in Naz- 
ing. England, Nov. i, 1620, to Mary Curtis (sister of William 
Curtis of Roxbury, Mass), who was baptized in April, 1589. 
He came to Roxbury in 1637, '^^as freeman May 22, 1639. 

In July, 1632, the first church society in Roxbury was 
organized, and on November 5th following, John Eliot was 
ordained teacher. 

" A recorde of such as adjoyned themselves unto the 
fellowship of this Church of Christ at Roxborough; as also 
such children as they had when they joyned and such as 
were borne unto them under the holy Covenant of this 
church, who are most puerly the seede of this church." 

By Rev. John Eliot. '' 

Reference : Bond's History and Genealogies of Watertown, 
Mass., pp. 17 and 676. „ . 

Watertown Records, Land Grants and Possessions (1894), p. 31. 



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" Thomas Ruggles, he came to N. E. in the yeare 1637, 
he was eldr brother to John Ruggles; children of a Godly 
fathr; he joyned to the Church soone after his coming 
being as well knowne as his brothr his first born sone dyed 
in England, his second son John was brought over a servant 
by Philip Eliot & he brought two othr children wth him, 
Sarah & Samuell : he had great sicknesse the yeare after 
his coming, but the Lord recovered him in mercy." 

"Mary, the wife of Thomas Ruggles, she joyned to 
the church wth her husband & approved her selfe a Godly 
Christian, by a holy & blameless conv'ation being conv'ted, 
not long before theire coming from England." 

" Month 9, dtiy 15, 1644, Thomas Ruggles, a Godly 
broth'^, he dyed of a Consumption. 

these two brake the knot first of the Nazing Christian 
I meane the first dyed of all those Christians y* came fro 
y* towne in England." 

Thomas Ruggles died in Roxbury, Nov. 16, 1644, His 
widow died Feb. 14, 1674, at the age of 88 years. 

CHII.DREX. 

1. Thomas, born about 1623, in England. 

2. John, born in 1625, died Sept. 15, 1658. 

3. Sarah, born in 1627, died Feb. g, 1689, 

4. Samuel^, born in 1629, died Aug. 15, 1692; married 

Hannah^ Fowle. 



Authority : A Report cf the Record Commissioners contain- 
ing Roxbury Land and Church Records. Boston, 1884, pp. 82, 172. 

* " The first church edifice in Roxbury was built on Meeting 
House Hill in the summer of 1632, the second in 1674. The first was 
a rude and ' unbeautiful ' structure, with a thatched roof, destitute 
of shinj^les or plaster; without gallery, pew or spire, and probably 
about thirt}'-six feet long, twenty feet wide and twelve feet high ' in 
the stud ' in its dimensions. At the corner of Eustis and Washing- 
ton Streets, is one of the oldest burial places in New England, the 
first interment having been made in it in 1633. Here since the ear- 
liest days of the settlement ' The rude forefathers of the hamlet 
sleep,' and we cannot traverse it without seeing names alike vener- 
able and memorable in New England's annuals." — Town of Roxbury, 
by Francis S. Drake (1878), pp. 282 and 283. 



66 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



SECOND GENERATION. 



CAPTAIN SAMUEL^ RUGGLES {Thomas), [son of 
Thomas^ and Mary (Curtis) Ruggles], was born in 1629 in 
England. He settled in Roxbury, Mass., where he was 
chosen Assessor, and he held the office of Selectman four- 
teen years and Representative four years. He was ap- 
pointed Lieutenant of the militia at Roxbury Feb. 2i, 
1675, afterwards Captain of the militia. He married (ist,) 
Jan. 10, 1654, Hannah^ Fowle [daughter of George^ and 
Mary Fowle of Charlestown, Mass.], who was born in 
Concord, Mass., Sept. 24, 1640. She died Oct. 24, 1669. 

Captain Samuel Ruggles was actively engaged in de- 
posing Sir Edmund Andros. 

" He kept not far from where the Norfolk House stands 
the ' Flower de Luce' tavern, where, in 1698, a meeting 
was held to settle about the Muddy River people worship- 
ing at their house.'' 

Captain Samuel" Ruggles married (2nd), May 26, 
1670, Anna Bright, daughter of Henry Bright of Water- 
town. She died Sept. 5, 1711. He died Aug. 15, 1692, 
and is buried in the Eustis Street burying ground, Roxbury, 
Mass. 

The slab marking his grave reads : 

HERE LVES YE BODY 

OF CAPT 

SAMUEL RUGGLES 

AGED 63 YEARS 

DECI5 AUGUST Y^ 15 

1692 

t " Nazing, a rural village in Essex County, England, the home 
of many of the fathers of Roxbury, around vvhicti clu.stered the 
affections and remembrances of their youth, comprises the North- 
west corner of Waltham Half-hundred. It is on the river Lea, and 
is twenty miles East from London. Its gable-fronted cottages, with 
low thatched roofs and over-hanging eaves, show that this quiet 
little village has undergone slight changes during the past 300 
years. The manor was given by Harold II to Waltham Abbey.'' — 
Town of Roxbury, by Francis S. Drake 



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67 



I. 

2. 

3- 

4' 

5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 

9 

lO 

II 

12 

13 

14 



CHILDHEN. 

Hannah^, born Jan. 21, 1655-6. 
Mary, born Jan. 10, 1656-7. 

SamueP , born June i, 1658; m. Martha* Wood- 
bridge. 
Joseph, born Feb. 12, 1659-60. 
Hannah, born Dec. 11, 1661. 
Sarah, born Nov. 18, 1663. 
Mary, born Dec. 8, 1666. 
Sarah, born Aug. 30, 1669. 

CHILDREN— 6ECOXD MARRIAGE. 

Thomas^, born March 10, 1670-1. 
Anna, born Sept. 30, 1672. 
Nathaniel, born Nov. 22, 1674. 
Elizabeth, born May i, 1677. 
Henry, born July 7, 1681, 
Huldah, born July 4, 1684. 



THIRD GENERATIOrN. 

CAPTAIN SAMUEL^ RUGGLES {Capt. Samuer% 
Thomas^), [son of Capt. Samuel" and Hannah^ (Fowle) 
Ruggles], was born in Roxbury, Mass., June i, 1658. 
He was credited on Nov. 30, 1675, with ;^o 17s 2d for 
services performed under Captain Daniel Henchman in 
King Philip's War. 

Capt. Samuel Ruggles succeeded his father as Captain, 
Selectman and Representative to the General Court of 
Massachusetts. 

Capt. Ruggles, with seven other persons, "Purchased 
Dec. 27, 1686, for ^20 New England currency, from John 
Nagers and Lawrence Nassawano, two noted Indians, a 
tract of land containing by estimation twelve miles long, 
north and south, and eight miles wide, east and west." 



References: Winslow Memorial, Vol. 2, appendix, p. 24. 
Massachusetts Records, 1674-1686; p. 73. 
Drake's History of Roxbury, Mass., pp. 108, 365. 



68 



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This purchase was subsequently known as Hardwick, Mass. 

On July 8, 1680, he married Martha^ Woodbridge, 
[daughter of the Rev. John^ and Mercy ^ (Dudley) Wood- 
bridge]. He died Feb. 25, 1716. She died in 1738 at 
Billerica, Mass. 

He is buried in the old Eustis Street burial ground at 
Roxbury. 

The slab marking his grave reads : 

here lyes buried 

ye body of captain 

samuel ruggles 

aged about 57 

years dec^ february 

YE 25 171I 



I 

2 

3 

4 

5 
6 

7 

8 

9 
10 



CHILDKEN. 

Samuel*, born Dec. 3, 1681. 

Lucy, born Sept. 8, 1683. 

Timothy'^, born Nov. 3, 1685; m. Mary^ White. 

Hannah, born April 10, 1688. 

Patience, born Nov. 9, 1689. 

Martha, born Feb. i, i6gi. 

Sarah, born June 18, 1694. 

Joseph, born July 21, 1696. 

Mary, born Sept. 29, 1698. 

Benjamin, born July 4, 1700. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

REV. TIMOTHY* RUGGLES {Capt. Samuel\ Capt. 
Samuel^, Thomas'^), [son of Capt. SamueP and Martha^ 
(Woodbridge) Ruggles], was born in Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 

Authority : Bodge, George M.; Soldiers in King Philip's War. 
Boston, 1897, p. 55. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 69 

3, 1685. He married Sept. 27, 17 10, Mary^ White [Ben- 
famin", John^), [daughter of Benjamin^ and Susanna^ 
(Cogswell) White], who was born Aug. 27, 1688. She 
died Jan. 23, 1749. He graduated at Harvard in 1707, 
and commenced his labors in Rochester in 1709, and was 
ordained pastor of the Rochester Church Nov. 22, 17 10, 
which office he held until his death. 

He married (2nd), April 17, 1750, Anne Woodworth, 
of Little Compton, R. I. He died Oct. 26, 1768. 

On a slatestone slab in the old cemetery at Rochester 
Centre is the following epitaph : 

"In memory of ye Rev. Mr. Timothy Ruggles, pastor 
of ye Church in Rochester, who was An able Divine, and a 
Faithful Minister. Having a peculiar talent at composing 
differences and healing Divisions in Churches, he was much 
imployed in Ecclesiastical Councils, and having spent his 
Days and his Strength in the Work of his Lord and Mas- 
ter, Finished his Course with Joy and departed this life 
Octobr ye 26, 1768, in the 84th year of his age and 58th 
of his ministry. They that be wise shall shine as the 
Brightness of ye Firmament, and they that turn many to 
Righteousness as ye stars forever and ever." 

*" You have heard to day, aud the whole world has heard, 
of Timothy Ruggles, Jr., the President of the Stamp Act 
Congress, tlie Tory wlio turned against his country; but the 
world is ignorant of Timothy Ruggles, Sr., the humble minister 
who stood at his post here for almost sixty years, received 
303 members into the Church of Christ, and then died in the 
iharness. And j^et, my friends, I would rather, and you would 
rather, have the name and fame of that father, than the fame 
and shame of his son." 

March 22, 1785, Elisha Ruggles conveyed to Ichabod 
Hathaway, of Rochester, all tlie lands whch Timothy Rug- 

*Addre8s of Rev. Wm. H. Cobb at Bi Centennial Celebration. 
The town of Rochester, Plymouth County, Mass., received its 
name from the ancient city of Rochester, in Kent, England, whence 
many of the first settlers came. It was organized as a settlement 
July 22, 1679. On the aooth anniversary a Bi- Centennial Celebra- 
tion was held. 



70 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

g\es, late of Rochester, deceased, died seized of, all lying 
in the town of Wareham." 

CHILBREX. 

1. Titnothy^ , born Oct. 20, 171 1; m. Mrs. Bathsheba* 

(Bourne) Newcomb, 

2. Benjamin, born May 19, 1713. 

3. Samuel, born July 5, 1715. 

4. Joseph, born June 13, 1717 

5. Mary, born Jan. i, 1719. 

6. Susanna, born Jan. 6, 1721. 

7. Edward, born Aug. 30, 1723. 

8. Nathaniel, born April 12, 1725. 

9. Thomas, born July 13, 1727. 

10. Hannah, born Oct. 18, 1728. 

11. Thomas, born March 2, 1730. 

12. John, born Sept. 2, 1731. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

GENERAL TIMOTHY" RUGGLES {Rev. Timothy^ 
Captain Saimcel^ , Captain Samuel^ , Thomas'^), [son of Rev. 
Timothy* Ruggles and Mary^ (White) Ruggles], was born 
in Rochester, Mass., Oct. 20, 17 11. He was married on 
Sept. 18, 1736, to Mrs. Bathsheba* (Bourne) Newcomb* 

Reference: Plymouth County Register of Deeds, Plymouth, 
Mass. 

•Widow of William'* Newcomb {Peter^, Andrew-, Andrew\), 
[son of Peter and Mercy (Smith) New^-omb], born Aug. 29, 1702, in 
Sandwich, Mass. He died April 8, 1736. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mercy Newcomb. born Fob, 4, 1723. 

2. Desire, born July 21. 1725. 

3. Peter, born Sept. 4, 1726. 

4. Mary, born April 3, 1728. 

5. Sarah, born Oct. 21, 1720. 

(i. William, born Jan. 27, 1730. 

7. Hannah, born June 4, 1732. 

8. Thomas, born June U, 17—. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 71 

[daughter of Hon. Melatiah^ and Desire^ (Chipman) 
Bourne]. She was born Nov. ii, 1703. He was a 
graduate of Harvard College in 1732. He raised a com- 
pany for service in the West Indies in 1740. Commenced 
practicing law in Rochester, and removed to Sandwich 
about 1734, and then to Hardwick about 1753. He was 
appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1756; 
was Chief Justice from 1763 until the Revolution; Speaker 
of Assembly from 1762 to 1763; President of the Stamp 
Act Congress, New York, in 1765, and refused to concede 
in its measures; was a Brigadier General and second in 
command at Lake George in 1755. He was the eminent 
Loyalist of the Revolution. He commanded the " Gentle- 
men Volunteers " — 200 Loyalists composed of merchants of 
Boston. After the Revolution he removed to Nova Scotia, 
and died in Rose way, N. S., Aug. 4, 1795. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Martha^, born Aug. 10, 1736. 

2. Timothy, born Jan. 7, 1738. 

3. Mary, born Feb. 10, 1740. 

4. John, born Sept. 30, 1742. 

5. Richard'^, born March 4, 1744; m. Welthe^ Hatha- 

way. 

6. Bathsheba, born Feb. 13, 1746. 

7. Elizabeth, born May 15, 1748. 

" As* the Revolutionary quarrel progressed he became 
one of the most violent supporters of the Ministry, and he 
and Otis, as the leaders of the two opposing parties, were 
in constant collision in the discussions of the popular branch 
of the government. 

In 1774 he was named a Mandamus Councillor, which 
increased his unpopularity to so great a degree that his 



Hardwick is about twenty-thiee miles northwest of Worcester, 
Mass. On Janunrj- 10, 17,^9, the plantation of Lambstown was ci^tab 
lished as Hardwick, Worcester County, Mass. The records of town 
proceedings and the vital records begin in 1734. The First Calvini.«tic 
(Congregational) Church was organized in 1736, and the parish 
records cover the years 1736-1900. 



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72 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

house was attacked at night and his cattle were maimed 
and poisoned. 

His extensive estates in Hardwick were confiscated, 
but were made up to him subsequently by the crown, and 
he went with the royal army to Halifax into perpetual 
banishment. 

After many vicissitudes incident to his position, in so 
troubled times, he established his residence in Nova Scotia. 
On the beautiful site of Digby in that colony he was a 
proprietor and a settler. 

Gen. Ruggles v^^as a good scholar and possessed powers 
of mind of a very high order. He was a wit and misan- 
thrope — a man of rude manners and rude speech. Many 
anecdotes continue to be related of him in the town of his 
nativit}^ which show his shrewdness, his sagacity, his mili- 
tary hardihood and bravery. 

It is said that on one occasion in stern derision of the 
constitution of the Court, he reprimanded a dog, sitting 
beside his master, for coming there to vote, or appearing on 
the bench before he had been qualified as justice of the 
peace. The court at the time was composed of all the 
justices of the peace in the county. 

As a lawyer he was an impressive pleader, and in 
parliamentary debate able and ingenious. In the expedi- 
tion to Crown Point in 1755 he was Colonel under Sir 
William Johnson; in the battle of Lake George, the same 
year, was second in command to Baron Dieskau, and was 
distinguished in the action, for which he was rewarded b}^ 
the gift of a lucrative position. He remained in the army 
until 1760, the last three years was Brigadier General under 
Lord:Amhurst. He represented Hardwick several years in 
the Legislature, and was speaker of the House in 1762-63.' 



* Authority : The Winslow Memorial, David P. Holton, M. D., 
New York, i«88, Vol. 2, appendix, pp. 23 to 29. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 73 

GENERAL TIMOTHY RUGGLES. * 

*'He graduated in 1732, being then just twenty-one 
years of age, and on leaving college he at once proceeded 
to the study of the law. He had not been at the bar long be- 
fore he was elected to a seat in the Massachusetts Assembly, 
in which he was instrumental in the passage of an act still 
in force, to prohibit sheriffs filling writs. In his profes- 
sional as well as his legislative capacity, he soon gave evi- 
dence of a degree of ability far above mediocrity, and it 
was not a very long time before he found himself occupying 
a high place at the bar of his native province, and taking 
high rank among the most fluent, finished and forcible 
speakers in the halls of its Legislature. 

" Speaking of the estimation in which he was held in his 
profession, a writer of some note tells us : ' His reputa- 
tion was so great that he was early and frequently employed 
in the adjoining counties of Barnstable and Bristol, and 
was the principal antagonist of Colonel Otis in causes of 
importance.' t About this time (1740-1745), he removed 
from Rochester to Sandwich, where he prosecuted his 
profession with constantly increasing reputation until 1757, 
when he was made a Justice in the Court of Common 
Pleas. Five years later he was gazetted Chief Justice in 
that court, a place which he held acceptably until the 
beginning of that great revolution which ultimately drove 
him into exile and comparative poverty. The Seven Years' 
War — 1756 to 1763, which was terminated by the treaty of 
Hubertsburg and of Paris in the latter year, raged violently 
on this continent; the old colonies, particularly Massa- 
chusetts, lending every possible aid to the mother country 
in her attempts to curb or destroy the power of France in 
America. In 1756, and almost immediately before Mr. 
Ruggles' appointment to the bench, he accepted a Colonel's 

* History of the County of Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Calnek, 
W. A., and Savary, A. W. Loudon, 1897, pp. 586 to 592. 

t G. A. Ward in Curwen's Journal, London, 1842. 



74 THE TUCKER GEi\EALOGY 

commission in the forces raised by his native province for 
service on the frontiers of Canada. In the campaign which 
followed, he served under the command of Sir Wilhain 
Johnson, and did good service in the expedition against 
Crown Point, and in September of the same year he was 
second in command under that leader at the battle of Lake 
George, in which the French under Baron Dieskau met a 
signal defeat, after very severe and obstinate fighting, in 
which he distinguished himself for coolness, courage and 
ability, and so highly were his services esteemed on that 
occasion that he was promoted to the position of General 
of Brigade, and placed under the command of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief. In 1758 he commanded the Third 
Division of the Provisional troops under Abercrombie, in 
the unsuccessful attack upon Ticonderoga, which was de- 
fended by Montcalm, who resisted all the efforts of the 
English, defeating them with a loss of 550 killed and nearly 
1,400 wounded. Brigadier Ruggles also served with dis- 
tinction and credit in the campaign of 17 59-1 760, under 
Amherst. In the winter of 1762, while the belligerent 
forces on both sides were in winter quarters, he had the 
honor to be chosen Speaker of the House of Represen- 
tatives, 

"The conduct of Mr. Ruggles as a militarv commander 
has been highly praised by most competent judges. The 
writer, whom I have before quoted, and who was in a posi- 
tion to be well informed, says on this head : ' Few men 
in the province were more distinguished, and few more 
severely dealt with in the bitter controversies preceding the 
Revolution. As a military officer he was distinguished for 
cool bravery and excellent judgment and science in the art of 
war, and no provisional officer was held in higher esteem for 
those qualities. His appearance was commanding and digni- 
fied, being much above the common size; his wit v/as ready 
and brilliant; his mind clear, comprehensive and penetrating; 
his judgment was profound and his knowledge extensive; 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 75 

his abilities as a public speaker placed him among the first 
of the day; and had he been so fortunate as to have 
embraced the popular sentiments of the times, there is no 
doubt he would have ranked among the leading characters 
of the Revolution.' 

" The war having terminated in 1760, his military serv- 
ices were no longer required, and he at once exchanged his 
military uniform for his barrister's gown and resumed the 
practice of his profession. About this time, 1753, he re- 
moved from Sandwich to Hardwick, where he built a 
dwelling so substantial that it is said to exist to the 
present day. During the following eight or ten years I 
have only occasional glimpses of him. I have already said 
he was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1762, 
and following years, and that he was at the same time Chief 
Justice of the Common Pleas. * As the disputes and dis- 
tractions which were ultimately to culminate in war, grew 
to volume and virulence, and the people began to take 
sides, there was no doubt as to the party to which 
Mr. Ruggles intended to attach himself. By pen and 
tongue, in the halls of the Legislature, and on the plat- 
form, he declared against rebellion and bloodshed. Says a 
writer of the period : ' In consequence of the grievous 
exations of the British Government, delegates were chosen 
by the Legislature to meet the delegates from the other 
colonies, at New York, to seek out some public relief from 
immediate and threatened evils by a representation of their 
sufferings to *' the King and Parliament." Mr. Ruggles was 
chosen as one of the delegates, on the part of Massa- 
chusetts, and was also elected ' President of that cele- 
brated Congress of distinguished men from nine of the 
colonies.' He openly dissented from the resolves passed 
by the Congress, over whose proceedings he presided, and 



* About this time he was appointed " Surveyor-General of the 
King's Forests," "an office of profit attended with little labor.'' 
This was a reward for his military services. 



76 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

thus not only incurred their displeasure, but the ant^'er of 
the Assembly which had chosen him to represent them as a 
delegate, for we are told that he ' was censused by the 
House of Representatives, and reprimanded by the Speaker 
in his place.' 

"When the appeal to arms had been finally decided on 
by the American people, the popular excitement was at a 
fearful height, and all those who had counselled modera- 
tion, either in demand or action, were declared to be 
enemies to their country and traitors to the cause of liberty, 
and as such worthy of death. No man in Massachusetts 
was regarded as so inimical to the cause of rebellion as 
General Ruggles, whose known and recognized ability,. 
great energy and unflinching courage made him an object 
of fear as well as dislike; and, to crown his unpopularity, 
he was made a Mandamus Councillor, a position which he 
accepted at the hands of the Crown, and for which he 
qualified himself in due form, notwithstanding all the in- 
fluences brought to bear upon him to prevent him doing so. 
This last fact was deemed a defiance, on his part, of the 
powers of the rebels, and they proceeded to denounce him 
as a malignant, and openly threatened his life. In con- 
sequence of this violence he was forced, with his family, 
and such of his neighbors as remained loyal to the mother 
country, to seek safety and refuge with the British forces in 
Boston. On the evacuation of that city Mr. Ruggles went 
with it, and was, I believe, in Long Island during its 
operations against the rebel forces in that direction, but I 
have failed to discover many particulars concerning his life 
and doings at this time. In 1783 I find him an exile from 
his native province in his old age, but still as vigorous as he 
was loyal. He was living in the county in that year, and 
at Digby or Annapolis. He had made an application for a 
grant of land in that portion of the province, in the early 
part of the year, as will more fully appear from the letter 
which the Surveyor-General addressed to him under date oi 
July 2 in that year." 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 77 

Mr. Morris' letter was as follows : 

' Sir : I am directed by Governor Parr to assure you 
he will pay every attention to your application for ten thou- 
sand acres of land, being fully convinced of your merit, and 
sensible of the many niisfortunes you have suffered in the 
late unhappy contest. He is apprehensive that the lands 3^ou 
mention will, in some degree, interfere with the present settle- 
ment forming there, and has directed me to point out other 
land for you. I therefore beg leave to recommend land 
to the eastward of Granville, and to the northward of the 
farms settled in Wilmot; that is to say, between those farms 
and the B ly of Fundy. This land is said, by those who 
know it best, to be among the finest in the Province, and the 
increasing settlement in Wilmot (adds to) the value of it 
every day. 

* I hope, after inquiring into the matter, you will accept 
of a location in some part of this tract, or in some of the 
lands on the back of Annapolis, whicli have been represented 
to be extremely good, and which have been applied for by 
many persons, but not yet assigned to anyone. Mr. William.s 
has a grant of 1,500 acres somewhere thereabouts; he will 
give you every necessar}' information in these matters I 
have to entreat the favor of a line from you in answer as soon 
as you can be informed in which tract to chose. I have the 
honor to be,' etc., etc. 

' 'On the 19th of the same month, the Surveyor-General 
having received a reply from General Ruggles, to the fore- 
going letter, wrote to him again in the terms following : 

'Sir: I have been honored with the favor of jour 
letter, delivered me by Colonel Small, and have si.icc liad 
frequent opportunities of talking with the Governor upon 
your particular situation, and the great desire you have to 
procure something permanent for your family. He has given 
me in writing the following directions : To assure General 
Ruggles, and all other Loyalists applying for land, that he 
wishes to accommodate all of them as much as is in his power, 
but from the vast numbers who have already come, and are 



78 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

continually coming to settle in the Province, he finds it 
indispensably necessar}' to postpone an}' further arrangement 
until he receives His Majesty's instructions upon the subject. 
Agreeing with you that 'the primar}' object of Government 
is, and ought to be, the settling of the colony, and next to 
that, to extend donations to such as have suffered most,' he 
has directed me to assure you that as soon as His Majesty's 
pleasure is made known in respect to these matters, that you 
are the foremost to receive what favor and indulgence it may 
be his power to give. 

'Messrs. Botsford, Hauser and Cummings were recom- 
mended to Sir Andrew Hammond by General Carleton, in the 
strongest terms possible, as agents for a number of Loyalists 
who came with them, and others that were to come, and 
interested Sir Andrew to exert himself in their behalf. In 
consequence of this recommendation, and a repetition of it 
to Governor Parr, the Government upon their recommenda- 
tion gave me orders — a copy of which I enclose you — by 
which you will see that all the land from Annapolis to 
St. Mary's Bay and around the Bay to the Cape and 
to Yarmouth, before unappropriated, were desired to be 
laid out in fifty acre farm lots, and proper town plots, 
for the reception of the Loyalists. Under this order my 
deputies* are at present acting. For these reasons I was 
induced to take the liberty, with the Governor's appro- 
bation, to recommend other lands to you; and I beg leave 
again to assure you, sir, that either of the tracts I recom- 
mended are far superior lands to any in the above districts, and 
all persons of any knowledge of the country, and of these 
tracts in particular, will join me in this opinion. There have 
been many applications for that back of Annapolis, in par- 
ticular, by our old inhabitants, who have frequent opportuni- 
ties of searching out the best. I hope, therefore, you will, 
after having a share for yourself and family, accept of the 
remainder in one of those places proposed, or in any other 
part of the Province where it could be located to your 

* His deputies in this county at this time were Thomas INIillidge, 
Phhies Ivlillidge, John Harris, Joseph Ruggies, Johu Morrisuu and 
one or two others, whose names have escaped me. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 79 

advantage, without interfering with the settlements now 
going on.' 

' I have received a letter from Mr. Watson * and other 
friends in New York, recommending you in a particular man- 
ner, and our worthy friend, Colonel Small, has said so much 
on your behalf that I hold myself bound by every tie of 
friendship and honor, to assist you in my professional line to 
the utmost of my power; and you may rest assured, most 
worth}' sir, that 3'ou and your family shall claim my particular 
attention to their interests, and that it was with this senti- 
ment I first did myself the honor to write you on this subject. 
I have the honor to be, sir, with the highest regard and 
esteem,' etc., etc.f 

"General Ruggles finally determined to accept his grant 
in the township of Wilmot, and it is probable, though not 
certain, that he commenced clearing his lands in 1784. 
The spot he selected for his new dwelling house was on the 
face of and near the top of North Mountain, which, during 
his lifetime and for a few years afterwards, bore the name 
of "Ruggles Mountain," but after the commencement of 
the century, and to this day, it has been better known as 
the " Phinney Mountain." from the late Lot Phinney, who 
became the purchaser of the property on the occasion of its 
sale on the death of Mr. Ruggles. 

" I regret that the Morris-Ruggles correspondence is so 
meagre and that the letters of the latter are entirely want- 
ing. I am induced to add one more short note of Mr. 
Morris to the General, because it contains references of 
interest. Under date of Sept. 14, 1783, he says: 'I 
have the honor to receive your favor of the 2nd iiist., 
enclosing a sketch of the lands you wish to obtain. The 
1,300 acres is pre engaged — all the other tracts may be 
granted you, and in lieu of this engaged I shall, in the 
description of the grant, extend the western line of the 

* Afterward Sir Brooke Watson, Lord Mayor of London, 
f Letter book of the Hon. Charles Morris for 17S3, in N. S. 
(Archives.) 



80 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

oblong square to the line of Arbuthnot's, and the western 
boundary to the Bay of Fundy, which will then contain 
10,000 acres, with ample allowances. * * * * The 
King's fine of ten shillings for ever}^ hundred acres, I sup- 
pose, will be remitted. I will make a return of your 
grant as soon as I hear that you approve of what I now 
propose.' 

" In the following year the grant was issued, and the 
undismayed grantee commenced a labor at the age of more 
than seventy years which few, if any, of the young men of 
to-day would voluntarily undertake. The work of chopping 
down the forests and clearing the lands for crops, and of 
preparation for building went on simultaneously and rapidly 
under his direction. Two young men, :j: Stronach and 
Fales, were engaged to work with him for a limited number 
of years, and to receive their pay in land. They did their 
work, and he paid them as agreed upon, and their descend- 
ants are now the owners and occupiers of many a fair home 
in the beautiful township of Wilmot. 

"It was the hands of these men that excavated the 
noble cellar over which the old Loyalist erected his new 
mansion - — their hands it was which prepared the land on 
which an orchard of apple trees was soon planted, and it 
was their hands also which planted it. Their orders were 
to dig this piece of ground — say about an acre — three feet 
deep, and to throw out every root and stone from it. The 
trees were brought from Massachusetts, and when planted 
formed the first orchard in that section of the country. 
Some of the trees, I believe, are still in bearing. Nearly 
south from the position of the house is a deep gulch in the 
mountain side, formed, probably, by the gradual washing 
away of a wedge of magnesian limestone which once filled 
it. In this vault, as it was generally called, and which was 
sheltered on all sides except the south, Mr. Ruggles in- 

X See Stronach and Fales Genealogies. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 81 

troduced many exotic plants, among others peaches, grapes 
and quinces, and more than one black walnut tree. 

' ' The General's four daughters were married before 
the Revolution broke out, and all their husbands probably 
adhered to the Colonial side, for they never came to Nova 
Scotia. Three of his sons followed him into exile and 
settled in that country. These were Timothy, John and 
Richard, who also married before their advent to the 
country. 

•'General Ruggles was afflicted with hernia, and tradi- 
tion affirms that about the beginning of August, 1795, he 
accompanied some visiting friends to his ' vault ' garden 
before alluded to, and that in clambering up its deep steep 
sides he so aggravated the disease that it terminated his life 
four days afterwards, at the advanced age of eighty years. 
I conclude the memoir of the famous old Loyalist by copy- 
ing the concluding part of the obituary notice of him which 
appeared in the 'Royal Gazette' in August, 1795, and 
which was presumably written by the late John Wiswall, 
who officiated at his obsequies : 

' The idea that his advanced age would not permit 
him to reap the fruit of his labors never dampened the 
spirit of improvement by which he was, in a most eminent 
degree, animated; and the district of country in which he 
lived will long feel the benefits resulting from the liberal 
exertions he made to advance the agricultural interests of 
the Province.' 

' It may not be without use to remark that for much 
the greater part of his life he ate no animal food and drank 
no spirituous or fermented liquors, small beer excepted, 
and that he enjoyed health to his advanced age.' 

" He was buried to the eastward of the chancel of the 
(then new) church, lately known as the ' Pine Grove 
Church,' in central Wilmot — near the present village of 
Middleton — a church toward the erection of which he was 
a considerable contributor," 



82 THE TUCKER (JENEALoCiY 



SIXTH GENER.VTlOxV. 



RICHARD'' RUGGLES {Timothy^ Timothy^ Sam^ 
ulP, SiiJiiucl", Thojims^), [son of General Timothy^ and 
Bathsheba* (Bourne) Ruggles], was born in Rochester, 
Mass., March 4, 1744. In 1771 he married Welthe^ 
Hathaway {Ebcuc.zer'^, libcJiczcj-'^ Abraham^, John'^), 
[daughter of Capt. Ebenezer and Welthe (Gilbert) Hatha- 
way]. She was born Sept. i, 1750. He was a Loyalist. 
During the Revolutionary War he removed to Nova Scotia 
and settled at Clements. He died Oct, 21, 1832, at Annap- 
olis, N. S. She died Dec. 4, 1824. 

CIIILIJIIEX. 

1. Bathsheba", born Sept. 22, 177.2; ni. Joim Hutch. 

ison. 

2. C\'nthia, born April 15, 1774; ^'- J'^^^" Durland. 

3. Thomas, born Nov. ig, 1775; m. Mis. Sarah (Helm) 

Fowler. 

4. Richard, born Sept. 25, 1780; m. El-anor Ann Purdy. 

5. Wel/Iie'^, born Sept. 25, 1780; m. Charles^ Tucl;er. 

6. Sophia, born Jan. 31, 1785; m. John Ry arson. 

7. Tryphena, born May 24, 1786. 

8. Gilbert, born June 14, 17SS; m. Mary Morehouse. 



GEORGE^ FO\^'LE, a tanner, was a resident of 
Concord, Mass., in 1648. He was a Freeman March 14, 
1638-9; Surveyor of Arms for Concord in May, 1639. 
Removed to Charlestown. Admitted to the Church Jan. 21, 

1652. He married Mary^ ■. She died Feb. 15, \6'/6^ 

aged 63, and he died in Charlestown Sept. 19, 16S2, aged 
72. His will, dated March 11, 1681-2, and proved Oct. 
3, 1G82. 

Reference : Pioneers of Massachusetts, Pope, Ch is. H., p. 173. 
Churlestowu, Mass., Genealogies; W^ man, Thomas B., Vo.. i, 
P 367. 



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83 



The estate inventoried: "One acre of upland, hay 
lot; three commons, four and a half acres; new field on 
common, wood lot and house, ^321." 

cniL,i>i{i:x. 

I Hannah", born at Concord Sept. 24, 1640; m. Capt. 
Samuel" Ruggles. 

2. John, born Oct. 2, 1641, 

3. Mary, bern Jan. 12, 1643. 

4. Peter, born Dec. 9, i()44. 

5. James. 

6. Mary. 

7. Abraham. 

8. Zachariah. 
g. Isaac. 

10. Jacob. 

11. Elizabeth, born Jan. 27, ir^55. 



WOODBRIDGE. 



FIRST GENERATION. 



REV. JOHN WOODBRIDGE was Rector of the 
Parish of Stanton, near Highworth, in Wiltshire. He mar- 
ried Sarah Parker, daughter of Robert Parker. He died 
Dec. 9, 1637, leaving his widow and four children. 

CIIILDSEX. 

1. John'', born in 1613; m. Mercy- Dudley. 

2. Sarah, born in 1614. 

3. Lucy. 

4. Benjamin, born in 1622. 



SECOND GENERATION. 



REV. JOHN2 WOODBRIDGE, [son of Rev. John' 
and Sarah (Parker) Woodbridge], was born at Stanton, 
near High worth, England. He was educated at Oxford 
University in 1634. He came to America on the ship 



84 THE TUCKER GENEALOGV 

" J^Iary and John," and located at Newbur}', Mass. He 
was chosen Town Clerk in 1 634-1 638. He represented 
Newbury in the General Court in 1637, 1640 and 1641. In 
1639 he married Mercy ^ Dudley, [daughter of Governor 
Thomas^ and Dorothy Dudley], who was baptized Sept. 27, 
162 1, October 24, 1645, he received a call from the 
Church at Andover, over which he presided for some years. 
In 1643 he kept a school in Boston. One of the original 
purchasers of the site of Andover, Mass., where he was 
ordained Oct. 24, 1645. From 1647 until 1663 he resided 
with his family in England, returning to Newbury, Mass. 
On July 27, 1663, he was made assistant to his uncle, the 
Rev. Thomas Parker. His daughter, Martha Ruggles, is 
mentioned in his will. 

In 1668 he was taxed on 4 houses, 30 acres of plow 
land, 50 acres of meadow land, 40 acres of pasture land, 
2 horses, 6 oxen, 8 cows, i 5 young cattle and 34 sheep. 

He was Surveyor of Arms in 1637, ^.nd a member of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1644. 

In 1683 he was chosen assistant. He acted as a 
magistrate until his death, March 17, 1694-5 ^.t Newbury, 
his wife having died July i, 1661. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Sarah^, born June 7, 1640. 

2. Lucy, born March 13, 1642. 

3. Johu, born in 1644. 

4. Benjamin, born in 1646. 

5. Thomas, born in 1648. 

6. Dorothy. 

7. Mary. 

8. Anne. 

9. Timothy, born in 1656. 

10. Joseph. 

11, Martha, m. Capt, SamueP Ruggles, 

- - ■ — - .1 .- — ■■■-—■- - I — V 

Reference : N. E. H. & G. Register, 1878, Vol. 32, p. 292. 

Roberts, O. A.: History of the A. & H, Artillery Co. of Mass., 
(1895), Vol. I, p, 147. 



TH£ TUCKER GENEALOGY 85 

DUDLEY, 

GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY, son of Captain 
Roger Dudley, was born in Northampton, England, in 1576. 

He came to America in the "Arabella," and on 
June 12, 1630, arrived in Salem, Mass. It is said that : 
" He came to the deserts of America for the sake of enjoy- 
ing his liberty to the utmost of what he desired.'' 

On March 12, 1630-1, Thomas Dudley wrote a letter 
from Boston to the Countess of Lincoln, giving a narrative 
of the early settlement of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. 
The letter reads : 

* " Touching the plantation which we here have begun, it 
fell out thus : About the year 1627, some friends being 
together in Lincolnshire, fell into discourse about New Eng- 
land and the planting of the gospel there, and after some 
deliberation we imparted our reasons by letters and messages 
10 some in London and the west country, where it was like- 
wise deliberately thought upon, and at length, with often 

egotiation so ripened that, in 1628, we procured a patent 
from his Majesty for our planting between the Massachusetts 
Bay and Charles River on the south, and the river of Merri- 
mack on the north, and three miles on either side of those 
rivers and bay; as also for the government of those who did 
or should inhabit within that compass. And the same year 
we sent Mr. John Endecott, and some with him, to begin a 
plantation and to strengthen such as he should find there 
which we sent thither from Dorchester and some places 
adjoining, from v;hom, the same year, receiving hopeful news, 
the next year, 1629, we sent divers ships over, with about three 
hundred people, and some cows, goats and horses, many of 
which arrived safely. 

" These, by their too large commendations of the country 
and the commodities thereof invited us so strongly to go on, 
that Mr. Winthrop, of Suffolk (who was well known in his 
own country, and well approved here for his piety, liberality, 

* Authority : Drake, Francis S. The Town of Roxbury, Mass, 
<Roxbury, 1878}, pp. 6 to 9. 



86 THE TUCKr.R GENEALOGY 

wisdom and gravity), coming in to us, we came to such reso- 
lution that in April, 1630, we set sail from old England with 
four good ships, and in May following, eight more followed; 
two having gone before in February and March, and two more 
following in June and August, besides another set out by a 
private merchant. 

" These seventeen ships arrived all safe in New England 
for the increase of the plantation here this year, 1630, but 
made a long, a troublesome, and costly voyage, being all 
wind bound long in England, and hindered v/ith contrary 
winds after they set sail, and so scattered with mists and 
tempests that few of them arrived together. Our four ships, 
which set out in April, arrived here in June and Jul}', where 
we found the colony in a sad and unexpected condition, above 
eighty of them being dead the v/inter before, and many of 
those alive being weak and sick; all the corn and bread 
amongst them all hardly sufficient to feed them a fortnight, 
insomuch that the remainder of one hundred and eighty 
servants we had the two years before sent over, coming to us 
for victuals to sustain them, we found ourselves wholly unable 
to feed them, whereupon necessity enforced us toourextteme 
loss to give them all liberty who had cost us about sixteen or 
twenty pounds a person, furnishing and sending over. 

" But, bearing these things as we might, we began to 
consult of the place of our sitting down, for Salem, where 
we landed, pleased us not, and to that purpose some were 
sent to the Bay to search up the rivers for a convenient place, 
who, upon their return, reported to have found a good place 
upon Mistick; but some other of us found a place liked us 
better, three leagues up Charles River and thereupon we 
shipped our goods into other vessels, and with much cost and 
labor brought them, in July, to Charlestown; but there 
receiving advertisements by some of the late arrived ships 
from London and Amsterdam of some French preparations 
against us (many of our people brought with us being sick of 
fevers and the scurvy, and we thereby unable to carry up our 
ordnance and baggage so far), we were forced to change 
counsel, and for our present shelter to plant dispersediy; 
some at Charlestown, some at Boston, some of us upon 



I'HE TUCKER GENEALOGY 87 

Mistick, which we named Medford, some of us westward on 
Charles River, four miles from Chariestown, which place we 
named Watertown; others of us two miles from Boston, in a 
place we named Roxbary; others upon the river of Saugus, 
between Salem and Chariestown, and the western men four 
miles south of Boston, at a place we named Dorchester. 

" This dispersion troubled some of us, but help it we 
could not, wanting ability to remove to any place lit to build 
a town upon, and the time too short to deliberate any longer 
lest the winter should surprise us before we had builded our 
houses. The best counsel we could find out was, to build a 
fort to retire to in some convenient place, if any enemy 
pressed us thereunto, after we should have fortified ourselves 
against the injuries of wet and cold. So ceasing to consult 
further at that time, they who had health to labor fell to 
building, wherein many were interrupted with sickness, and 
many died weekly, yea, alniost daily, among whom were Mrs. 
Pynchon, Mrs, Coddington, Mrs. Phillips, and Mrs. Alcock, 
a sister of Mr. (Rev. Thomas) Hooker's. Insomuch that the 
ships being now upon their return, there was, as I take it, not 
much less than one hundred which returned back again, and 
glad were we so to be rid of them. The ships being gone, 
vituals wasting, and mortality increasing, we held divers fasts 
in our several congregations. And of the people who came 
over with us from the time of their setting sail from England 
in April, 1630, until December following, there died two 
hundred at the least, so low hath the Lord brought us. 

" Well, yet they who survived were not discouraged, but 
bearing God's corrections with humility, and trusting in his 
mercies, and considering how after a low ebb he had raised up 
our neighbors at Plymouth, we began again in December to 
consult about a fit place to build a town upon, leaving all 
thoughts of a fort because upon any invasion we were neces- 
sarily to lose our houses when we should retire thereinto; so 
after divers meetings at Boston, Roxbury and Watertown, on 
December 28th we grew to the resolution to bind all the assist- 
ants to build houses at a place a mile east from Watertown, 
near Charles River, the next spring, and to winter there the 
next year; that so by our examples and by removing the 



88 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

ordnance and munitions thither, all who were able might be 
drawn thither, and such as shall come to us hereafter to their 
advantage be compelled so to do, and so, if God would, a 
fortified town might there grow up, the place fitting reasonably 
well thereto. 

" Half of our cows, and almost all our mares and goats, 
died at sea in their passage hither, which, together with the 
loss ofour six months' building, occasioned by our intended 
removal to a town to be fortified, weakened our estates, espe- 
cially the estates of the undertakers, who were ^3,000 to 
^4,000, engaged in the joint stock which was not now above 
so many hundreds 

" If any come hither to plant for worldly ends that can 
live well at home, he commits an error of which he will soon 
repent him; but if for spiritual, and no particular obstacle 
hinder his removal, he may find here what may well content 
him, viz.: materials to build, fewel to burn, ground to plant, 
seas and rivers to fish in, a pure air to breathe in, good water 
to drink till wine or beer can be made. ... If there be 
any endued with grace and furnished with means to feed 
themselves and theirs for eighteen months, and to build and 
plant, let them come into our Macedonia and help us. 

" Upon the 25th of this March, one of Watertown hav- 
ing lost a calf, and about ten of the clock at night hearing 
the howling of some wolves not far off, raised many of his 
neighbors out of their beds, that by discharging their muskets 
near about the place where he heard the wolves, he might so 
put them to flight and save his calf. The wind carrying the 
report of the muskets to Roxbury, three miles off, at such a 
time, the inhabitants there took an alarm, beat up their 
drum, armed themselves, and sent in post to us at Boston to 
raise us also. So in the morning, the calf being found safe, 
the wolves affrighted, and our danger past, we went merrily 
to breakfast." 

Gov. Thomas Dudley settled in Newtown, (now 
Cambridge), Mass. About 163 1 he removed to Ipswich, 
Mass., and in 1642 located at Roxbury, Mass. 



THE TTCKKR GEXEAI.OGY 89 

* "The first houses were of one story, with very steep 
roofs, mostly built either of clay and mud, or hewn lop,s, 
covered with poles and thatch. The chimneys, which were 
usually in the centre of the building, were commonly of 
rough stone and clay, or of pieces of wood placed crosswise, 
the interstices and outside covered with clay. The fire- 
places, made of rough stone, were broad and deep, and 
were large enough for burning logs four feet long. They 
had huge fireplaces on either side of the entrance, and in 
the back kitchen. The hearths were large, with capacious 
ingles for a seat, from which gleamed the sky overhead. 
These houses usually contained bat one room, about twenty 
feet square. The roof may have been of shingles and 
boards, thatch having been prohibited in consequence o^ 
frequent conflagrations. 

"Not long after came frame buildings of two stories in 
front, sloping down to one in the rear. They almost with- 
out exception faced south. Frames, and often the planking 
and boards, were of heavy oak. The general room of the 
family was long and spacious, lighted on two sides, the 
others opening into the lean-to or shed. The windows, 
which were very small and opened on hinges, were some- 
times of oiled paper or mica, but generally of diamond 
panes of glass, three or four inches broad, set in lead. 

' ' Houses of the period of Philip's War, when of wood, 
had their second floors project a foot or two, that their 
occupants might, if molested, through openings for the 
purpose, fire or pour hot water upon their assailants. The 
houses of Col. Joseph Williams and of John Pierpont, of 
Roxbury, were of this description. Very few houses were 
painted, even at the close of the seventeenth century. 
The third period of New England architecture saw the 
advent of the gambrel roof, with dormer-windows similar 
to the mansard style." 



* Authority : Drake, Francis S. The Town of Roxbury, Mass. 
Roxbury, (1878), pp. 57 and 58. 



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On April i, 1634, Governor Thomas Dudley received 
a grant of 500 acres of land, and on June 5, 1634, the 
General Court granted him 200 acres of land on the west 



Governor Thomas Dudley was the ancestor of several prominent 
men, viz : Robert C. Winthrop, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell 
rhillips, William Eilery Channing, as follows : 



Governor Thomas Dudley, m. Dorothy . 

Anne Dudlej', m, Simon Bradstreet, 

Dr. Samuel Bradstreet, m. Mercy Tyng. 

Mercy Bradstreet, m. Dr. James Oliver. 

Sarah Oliver, m. Jacob Wendell. 

Margaret Wendell, m. William Phillips. 

Hon. John Phillips, m. Salley Walley. 

Hon. Wendell Phillips, born in Boston Nov. 29, i8ri; 
graduated with J. L. Motley, the historian, from Har- 
vard in 18,31. The great anti-slavery advocate and 
lecturer. He married Anne Terry Greea anjj died io 
Februarv 1884 in Boston. i.^ ■»^' 

Governor Thomas Dudley m. Dorothy v. 

Anne Dudley m. Simon Bradstreet. {J 

Dr. Samuel Bradstreet m. Mercy Tyng. 

Mercy Bradstreet m. Dr James Oliver. 

Sarah Oliver, m. Jacob Wendell. 

Hon. Oliver Wendell, m. Mary Jackson. 

Sarah Wendell, m. Rev. Abiel Holmes. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, born Aug. 29, 1809, at Cambridge. 
He graduated at Harvard in 1829; received degree of M. 
D. in 1836; Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in 
Dartmouth in 1838; M. D. in 1836; Professor of Anatomy 
and Physiology in Harvard, 1847-1883. He died in Octo- 
ber, 1894. 



I. 
2. 



4- 
.5- 
(). 

7- 



Gov. Thomas Dudley, in. Catharine (Dighton) Hackburn. 

Gov. Joseph Dudley, m. Rebecca Tyng. 

Ann Dudley, m. John Winthrop. 

John Still Winthrop, m Jane Borland. 

Thomas Lindall Winthrop, m. Elizabeth B. Temple. 

Robert Charles Winthrop, born May 12, 1809; graduated at 
Harvard in 1828; Speaker of the H. of R., 1847-49. He 
died Nov. 16, 1894. \ ^ 

■ \ .%A/v-' 
Gov. Thomas Dudley m. Dorothy - • ■ / ■ ' * . 



Anne Dudley, m. Simon Bradstreet. 

Rev. Simon Bradstreet, m. Lucy Woodbridge. 

Lucy Bradstreet, m. Hon. Jonathan Remington. 

Ann Remington, m. Hon. William Ellery.* 

I;ucy Ellery, m. William Channing. 

William Ellery Channing, born in April, 1780, in Newport, 
R. L; graduated at Harvard in 1798. He was a Unitarian 
clergyman, essayist and abolitionist. Died iu Benning- 
ton, Vt., Oct. 2, 1842. 



One of tbc signers of the Declaration of Independence. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 91 

side of the Charies River, and on Nov, 2, 1637, another 
grant of 1,000 acres in Concord. On Oct. 30, 1640, he 
purchased of WiHiani Parke, for ^'^j^, a half interest ni 
twenty-five acres of woodland, and sixteen acres of marsh, 
in Roxbury, and the same day purchased of Richard Wright 
forty acres of land and a watermill in Braintree, Mass., 
giving as payment " five cowes." "''' 

In 1636 he was one of a committee of twelve men ap- 
pointed by the General Court to formulate a plan for estab- 
Hshing a college at Newtown (Cambridge). 

In 1650, as Governor of Massachusetts Ba}' Colony, 
he signed the charter granted to Harvard College, t 

He married (ist), in England, Dorothy She 

died in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 27, 1643, aged 61 years. 
He married (second), April 14, 1644, Catherine (Dighton) 
Hagbourne, [widow of Samuel Hagbourne of Roxbury, 
Mass., and daughter of John Dighton of Gloucester, Eng- 
land]. She was baptized Jan. 16, 1614. She died Aug. 29, 
1671. 

He was chosen Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts 
Bay Colony under Governor Winthrop. In 1634 he was 
elected Governor, to which office he was re-elected three 
times, being continuously in ofSce 22 years. Commissioner 
for the United Colonies, 1643-47-49. Twice President of 
the United Colonies, Major General or commander of all 
the military forces in the Colony in 1644, and was again 
Governor from 1645 to 1650. 

He was greatly esteemed for his wisdom, piety, justice 
and zeal. He died Dec. 31, 1653, and is buried in Rox- 
bury, Mass. , in the old Eustis Street burying ground. 

His will :|: is dated April 20, 1652, and contains several 
codicils. The inventory of his estate was appraised at 
^1,560, los, id. 

* Authoritj' : SufFolk Deeds, Vol. i. Boston (rSSo), p. 14. 

fThe Charter is dated May 31, 1850. 

t Suffolk County. Mass., Probate Records, Document No. 129. 



92 THE TUCKliR GENKAI.OGV 

C III LDU EN— FIRST MAKRIAGK. 

1. Samuel'-, born in England in 1610. 

2. Anna, born in 1612. 

3. Patience, born ; m. Major General Daniel Deni- 

son, of Ipswich. 

4. Sarah, baptized July 23, 1620. 

5. Mcrcy^, baptized Sept. 27, 1621 ; m. Rev. John^ 

Woodbridge. 

CHIlL.I>BEN-SKCOJfD MABBIAGB. 

6. Deborah, born Feb. 27, 1645. 

7. Joseph, born Sept. 23, 1647. 

8. Paul, bom Sept. 8, 1650. 



WHITE. 

JOHN WHITE settled in Watertown, Mass. In 
1639 he owned "An Homeftall in Seven Acres more or les 
bounded the South and Eaft with the highway, the North 
with the Swampe and the weft with William Paine, bought 
of Ephraim Child.''* 

In 1630, he removed to Muddy River (now Brookline), 
Mass., and on Feb. 13, 1050, purchased of Thomas Oliver 
of Boston " 50 acres upland 18 acres of marsh and six 
acres of fresh marsh in Muddy River .... for & in 

consideration of the full & just summe 

of one hundred & thirty pounds sterl. to be paid in good & 
merchantable come & fatt cattle at prices current as they 
shall be prized by two men indifTerently chosen.''! 

The Roxbury Church record reads : 
" 1677, month 2, day 29, John White Senio^ of Muddy 
River was received vv*^ good acceptance." 



■• Wutertown Records, Land Grants and Possessions, p. 53. 

t Papers of the White Family of Brookline. 1(550-1807. Pub" 

lished by the Brookline Historical Publication Society. 
References: N. E. H. & G. Register, vol. 52, p. 4^1. 
Sult'olk Probate Records, vol. 8, p. 75. 
Record Commissioners' Report of liostou, Vol. VI., p. 32. 



THK TUCKliR (iEiNKAI.oGY 93 

His will was dated April 13, 1691; proved March 8, 
1692. 

He died April 15, 1691. His widow Frances died in 
1696. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John, born in 1642. 

2. Joseph. 

3. Benjamin^; m. Susanna'' Cogswell. 

4. Marj^ born in 1652. 

5. Hannah. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

BENJAMIN^ WHITE [son of John and Frances 
White], of Roxbury, Mass., was married Jan. 21, 1681, to 
Susanna^ Cogswell (rr/V/Za;;/*, John'^), [daughter of Will- 
iam and Susanna (Hawkes) Cogswell], was born in Che- 
bacco (Ipswich), Mass., Jan 5, 1657. They removed to 
Brookline, Mass. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Susanna'^, born March 29, 1683; died May 24, i68g. 

2. Ann, born July 4, 1685. 

3. Mary^ , born Aug. 27, 1688; m. Rev. Timothy* Rug- 

gles. 

4. Susanna, born Dec. 12, 1690. 

5. Edward, born July 10, 1693. 

6. Elizabeth, born Jan. 8, 1696. 

7. Joanna, born Nov. 4, 1701. 

John White was the ancestor of Pi'esidents John Adams and 
John Quincj' Adams, viz.: 

1. John^ White m. Frances . 

2. Benjamin- White m. Susannah Cogswell. 

3. Ann^ White m. Peter Boylston. 

4. Susannah* Boylston m. John Adams. 

5. John^ Arlamsm. Abigail Smith. 

6. John" Quincy Adams m. Louisa C. Johnson. 

John^ Adams and John Quincy" Adams are also descendants 
of John^ and Priscilla- (Mullins) Alden. 



9+ Tine TUCKER GENEALOGY 

COGSWELL. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

JOHN^ COGSWELL [son of Edward and Alice Cogs- 
well], was born in 1592, at Westbury Leigh, County of 
Wilts, England. He married Sept, 10, 1615, Elizabeth 
Thompson, daughter of Rev. William and Phillis Thomp- 
son. Emigrating in 1635 to America on the " Angel 
Gabriel,'' they settled at Ipswich, Mass. In 1636 he re- 
ceived a grant of 300 acres of land at Chebacco. He died 
Nov. 29, 1669. She died June 2, 1676. 

CniLrDBEX. 

1. Mary. 

2. William^, baptized in March, 1619; m. Susanna' 

Hawkes. 

3. John. 

4. Hannah. * 

5. Edward. 

6. Sarah. 
Elizabeth. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

WILLIAM^ COGSWELL [son of John^ and Eliza- 
beth (Thompson) Cogswell], was born in i6i9in Westbury 
Leigh, England. He embarked May 23, 1635, at Bristol, 
England, on the ship "Angel Gabriel," and settled at 
Ipswich, Mass. He married in 1649, Susanna Hawkes 
[daughter of Adam and Mrs. Anne (Hutchinson) Hawkes]. 

* Ralph Waldo Emerson was? a descendant of John Cogswell, viz : 

1. John Cogswell; m. Elizabeth Thompson. 

2. Hannah Cogswell, m. Dea. Cornelius Waldo. 

3. Rebecca Waldo, m. Edward Emerson. 

4. Rev. Joseph Emerson, m. Mary Moody. 

5. Rev. William Emerson, m. Phebe Bliss. 

6. Rev. William Emerson, m. Ruth Haskins. 

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson, born May -.35, 1803, at Boston; die 1 
April 27, 1882, at Concord; m. (ist), Sept., 1829, Ellen Louisa Tucker, 
[a daughter of Beza Tucker of Concord, N. H.], who died in Boston, 
Mass., Feb. 8, 1831, s. p. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



95 



She was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1633. They re- 
sided in Chebacco (Ipswich), Mass. He was a surveyor 
of the pubHc ways in 1663; a tithingman in 1677. 

The first meeting house in Chebacco was erected on 
land given by Wilham Cogswell. 

She died prior to 1696. He died Dec. 15, 1700. Will 
dated Aug. 5, 1696, and proved Dec. 19, 1700. 

CHILDRKK. 

1. Elizabeth, born in 1650. 

2. Hester. 

3. Susanna^, born Jan 5, 1657; m. Benjamin" White, 

4. Anne, born Jan 5, 1657. 

5. William, born Dec. 4, 1659. 

6. Jonathan, born April 26, 1661. 

7. Edmund. 

8. John, born May 12, 1665. 
g. Adam, born Jan. 12, 1667. 

10. Sarah, born Feb. 3, 1668. 



HAWKES, 

ADAM^ HAWKES, came in Winthrop's Colony and 
landed at Salem in June, 1630. He was an inhabitant of 
Charlestown, Mass., in 1634. He married Mrs. Anne 
Hutchison. 

He was admitted to the Church Sept. 21, 1634. Re- 
moved to Lynn. She died Dec. 4, 1669. 

He married (second), in June, 1670, Sarah Hooper, 
He died March 13, 1672. 

A division of his estate was made March 27, 1672. 
John Hawkes, the eldest son, was to administer the estate. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a descendant of John Cogswell, viz : 

1. John Cogcswell m. Elizabeth Thompson, 

2. William Cogswell, m. Susanna Hawkes. 

3. Hester Cogswell, m. Samuel Bishop. 

4. John Bishop, m. Temperance Lathrop. 

5. Temperance Bishop, m. Capt. David Holmes, M. D. 
«. Rev. Abial Holmes, m. Sarah Wendell, 

7. 0-iver Wendell Holmes. 



96 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

The fourth clause of the article reads: " 4 John Hawkes 
is to pay unto Mr. William Cogswell, for the use of his wife 
the some of four skoare and ten pounds that is as followeth, 
to pay ten pounds the twenty fifth of March next, and so 
from year to year every twenty fifth of March till the afore- 
said some be paid, all of which is to be paid in corne, 
cattell or goods at the now dwelling house of John Hawkes." 









CHILDREN. 


I. 


Adam2. 






2, 


John. 






3- 


Moses. 






4- 


Benjamin. 






5- 


Thomas. 






6. 


Susannah" 


m. 


William^ Cogswell 



CIIIL.DBEN— SECOND MARHIAGE. 

7. Sarah*, born June i, 1671. 



BOURNE. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

RICHARD^ BOURNE, came from Devonshire, Eng- 
land, and settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1636. He was a 
freeman March 7, 1636-7, and June 5, 1638, was a grand 
juror. He removed to Sandwich, Mass. He was Deputy 
to the first General Court in 1639, 1640, 1641, 1642, 1644 
and 1645, 1652, 1 664- 1 667 and 1670. In 1645 he was a 
member of the committee to draft laws for the Colony. 
April 2, 1667, Richard Bourne, William Bassett and James 
Skiff, with the commissioned officers of Sandwich, were 
appointed on the Council of War. He was missionary to 
the Indians, acquiring a knowledge of their tongue, and on 
August 17, 1670, was ordained by John Eliot, the apostle 
pastor of an Indian Church at Marshpee. He probably 

Authority : Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families; Otis, 
Amos, (1888), Vol. I, p. 105. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 97 

married (ist), Bathsheba^ Hallett, a daughter of Andrew 
Hallett, Senior. In July, 1677, he married (2nd), Mrs. 
Ruth (Sargent) Winslow, [daughter of WilHam and Sarah 
Sargent and widow of Jonathan Winslow]. He died at 
Sandwich in 1682. She died in 17 13 aged 71 years. 

CIIILBREN— FIHST MABBIAGR. 

1. Job^ 

2. Elisha, born in 1641. 

3. Shearjashub^ , bora in 1644; m. Bathsheba^ Skiff. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

SHEARJUSHUB2 BOURNE {Richard^), was born 
about 1644. He resided in Sandwich, Mass."* He was grand 
juryman in 1673, and selectman in 1684, 1689, 1690. 
He was representative to the General Court at Plymouth in 
1690. In 1673 he married Bathsheba^ Skiff, [daughter of 
James^ and Mary Skif? of Sandwich], who was born April 
20, 1648. He died March 7, 17 19, aged 75, leaving an 
estate of .^943. 



CIIILDRE]S^. 

Me/aiiah^ , born Jan. 12, 1673-4; ^- Desire^ Chipman. 

Ezra, born in 1676. 

Mary, born Oct. 21, 1678. 

Sarah, born Feb. 6, 1680. 

Mary, born in 1681. 

Remembrance, born Feb. 6, 1683. 

Patience, born April 20, 1686. 



* The town records of births, marriages and deaths of Sandwich 
JVlass., begin in 165c-, and the Congregational Church records begin 
in 1639, and are brought down to date. 

Reference : The Genealogical Advertiser, Cambridge, Mass., 
(igoo), Vol. 3, pp.34 and 76. 



98 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



THIRD GENERATION. 

HON. MELATIAH^ BOURNE, {Shearjashuh\ Rich- 
ard'^), [son of Shearjashub- and Bathsheba^ (Skiff) Bourne], 
was born Jan. 12, 1673-4, at Sandwich, Mass. Feb. 23. 
1692-3, he married (first). Desire- Chipman [daughter of 
Elder John and Hope^ (Rowland) Chipman], who was born 
Feb. 26, 1673. She died March 28, 1705. He was a dis- 
tinguished man, and held many public offices of trust. He 
was Judge of Probate for Barnstable County. He married 
(2nd), Mrs. Abigail Smith, widow of Thomas Smith. His 
will is dated Sept. 24, 1742, and proved in Feb., 1743. 

CHILDKEN"— FIRST marbiage;. 

1. Sylvanus*, born Sept. 10, 1694. 

2. Richard, born Aug. 13, 1695. 

3. Samuel, born Feb. 7, 1697. 

4. Sarah, born Feb. 7, 1697. 

5. John, born March 10, 1698. 

6. Sbearjashub, born Dec. 21, 1699. 

7. Silas, born Dec. 10, 1701. 

8. Bathsheba^, born Nov. 11, 1703; m. (ist), William 

Newcomb; (2nd), Gen. Timothy'^ Ruggles. 



HALLETT. 

ANDREW^ HALLETT; came from Weymouth, Eng- 
land. He arrived in New England in 1635-6, when he was 

28 years of age. He married Mary . He settled 

in Lynn, and removed to Plymouth in 1637, and thence to 
Yarmouth, Mass. June 28, 1640, he conveyed to John 
Wing property in Sandwich. 

In August, 1643, Andrew Hallett was a member of the 
Yarmouth Military Company under command of Lieutenant 
William Palmer. He was a schoolmaster in 1646. 



Reference : N. E. H. &G. Register, Vol 4, p. 258. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 99 

He died in Yarmouth. Will dated March 14, 1682, 
and probated May 31, 1684. His widow made a will on 
June 3, 1684, which was proved June 20, 1694. 

CIIILDEE>r. 

1. Bathshel'a^, m. Richard^ Bourne. 

2. Andrew. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Dorcas, baptized June i, 1646. 

5. Jonathan, bora Nov. 20, 1647. 

6. John. 

7. Hannah. 

8. Josiah. 
9 Joseph. 



SKIFF. 

JAMES* SKIFF; came from England in 1635, and 
settled in Lynn, Mass. Shortly after he removed to Sand- 
wich, Mass. He was a freeman in 1644, ^^'^ held many 
public offices in Sandwich, being Selectman, Constable, 
Deputy to the General Court in 1645, a-i^d many times 
thereafter, and a member of the Governor's Council. He 
was a member of Lieutenant John Blackmer's Company in 
August, 1643. 

He survived his wife, Mary, who died Sept. 21, 1673. 

CIIILDBEISr. 

1. James^, born Sept. 12, 1638. 

2. Stephen, born April 14, 1641. 

3. Nathaniel, born March 20, 1645. 

4. Sarah, born Oct. 12, 1646. 

5. JBaihsheba^ , born April 26, 1648; m. Shearjashub^ 

Bourne. 

6. Mary, born March 25, 1650. 

7. Marianne, born March 25, 1652, 

8. Benjamin, born Nov. 15, 1655. 

9. Nathan, born May 16, 1658. 

Reference : Pierce's Colonial List, p. 73. 

The Genealogical Advertiser, Vol. 3, pp. 74 and 77. 



1. cf C 



100 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

CHIPMAN, 

ELDER JOHN CHIPMAN, [sort of Thomas Chip- 
man], came in 1630 from Barnstable, England, where he 
was born about 161 4. He settled in Plymouth, Mass., and 
about 1646 married Hope- Howland, [daughter of John^ 
and Elizabeth" (Tilley) Howland]. She was born August 
30, 1629, in Plymouth. He was a ruling elder and repre- 
sentative from 1663 to 1666, and in 1668 and 1669. 

He was a freeman in 1649, and grand juror in 1652. 
From 1665 to 1668 he was one of the Selectmen of Barn- 
stable and a Justice of the Peace. In 1667 he was a mem- 
ber of the Council of War. The General Court in 1669, 
granted him one hundred acres of land between Taunton 
and Titicut. This grant was afterwards confirmed. 

He removed to Sandwich, Mass. His wife died |an 
8, 1683. He died April 7, 1708. 

The following inscription is on her tombstone : 

HERE LYETH 

INTERRED Y^ BODY OF 

MRS. HOPE CHiPMAN 

AGED 54 YEARS 

WHO CHANGED THIS LIFE 

FOR A BETTER 

YE 8iH OF JANUARY 

1683. 

CHII^DIJEN. 

1. Elizabeth", born June 24, 1647. 

2. Hope, born Aug. 3, 1652. 

3. Lydia, born Dec. 25, 1654. 

4. John, born March 2, 1657. 

5. Hannah, born Jan. 14, 1659. 

6. Samuel, born April 15, 1662. 

7. Ruth, born in December, 1663. 

8. Bethia, born July i, 1666. 

9. Mercy, born Feb 6, 1668. 

10. John, born March 3, 1670. 

11. Desire", born Feb. 26, 1673; m. Melatiah^ Bonrne 



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THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 101 

HOWLAND. 

JOHN ROWLAND, (a son of Humphrey Howland.^ 
a draper of London), was born in i 592, He was one of 
the younger men who came to America on the " May- 
flower " in 1620. 

Speaking of the voyage Governor Bradford says : 

" In sundrie of these stormes the winds were so feirce, & 
ye seas so high, as they could not bear a knote of saile, bu 
were forced to bull, for diverce days togither, and in one of 
them, as they thus lay at hull, in a moighty storme, a hustie 
younge man (called John Rowland), coming upon some 
occasion above y® grattings, was, with a scale of y^ shipe 
thrown into [y^] sea; but it pleased God y* he caught hould 
of ys top saile halliaids, which hunge overboard, & rane out 
at length; yt he held his hould (though he was sundrie 
fadoraes under water) till he was hald up by ye same rope to 
}<j brime of y*- water, and then with a boat hooke & other 
means got into y^ shipe again & his life saved; and though he 
was something ill with it, yet he lived many years after, and 
became a profitable member both in church & comone wealthe. " 

He was the thirteenth signer of the famous "Com- 
pact " which was executed in the cabin of the Mayflower, 
Provincetown harbor, November 21, 1620. 

He was a member of Gov. Carver's family. Later 
events showed that Gov. Carver's high estimate of the man 
was well placed, for John Howland afterwards took a 
prominent part in the affairs of the Colony. John How- 
land settled in Plymouth at a place called " Rocky Nook." 

Prior to 1624 he was married in Plyjgiouth to Eliza- 
beth* Tiiley (daughter of John Tilley). She was born 
about 1607. 

* Humphrey Howland died in 164O. His will was proved Feb. 
10, 1646. He had three sons — Arthur, Henry and John. 

Authorities: Bradford, Gov. William; " History of Plimoth 
Plantation,'' pp. 46 and 527. 

Howland, Franklyn: "Genealogy of the Howland Family in 
America,'" pp. 315 to 323. 



lo:; 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



Gov. Bradford, after referring to Gov. Carver, says :. 

" His servant, John Rowland, maried the doughter of 
John Tillie, Elizabeth, and they are both now living, and 
have lo children, now all living; and their eldest doughter 
hath 4 children. And ther 2 doughter, one, all living; and 
other of their children mariagable. So 15 are come of 
them." 

In 1633 and 1634 he was Assessor, and in 1635 ^ 
member of Governor Bradford's Council. In 1636 was on 
the "Jewry," and in 1666 Selectman. He was a Deputy 
to the General Court in 1652 to 1656, and in 1658, 1661, 
1663, 1666, 1667 and 1670. 

His will is dated May 29, 1672, and probated March 
5. 1673. 

He died Feb. 23, 1672-3, in his 80th year. His wid- 
dow died in Swanzey, Mass., at the residence of her 
daughter, Lydia Brown, on Dec. 21, 1687, aged 80 years. 



CHIL,DKE>f. 



I. 


Desire-. 


2. 


• 

John, born Feb. 24, 1627. 


3- 


Jabez. 


4- 


Hope^ , born Aug. 30, 1629; m. Elder John' Chipman. 


5 


Elizabeth. 


6. 


Lydia. 


7- 


Ruth. - 


8. 


Hannah. 


9- 


Joseph. 


10. 


Isaac, born Nov. 15, 1649. 



Copies of the wills of John Howland and his vvife are given in 
the Howiuiid Genealogy, pp. 319 und 323. The inventory of his 
estate is given in the Mayflower Descendant, Vol. a, p. 73. 



JOHN ROWLAND 

b. About 1593. 

d. Plymouth, Mass., 

March 5, 1673. 

Hope Rowland 

b. Plymouth, Mass., 

Aug, 30, 1629. 

d. Barnstable, Mass., 

Jan. 8, 1683-4. 

Desire Chipman 
b. Barnstable, Mass., 

Feb. 26, 1673-4. 
d. Sandwich, Mass., 

March 28, 1705. 



m. 

Plymouth, Mass., 
before 1624. 



m. 

Plymouth, Mass., 
about 1646. 



m. 
Feb. 2Z, 1692-3. 



ELIZABETH TILLEY. 

b. About 1607. 
d. Swanzey, Mass., 

Dec. 31, 1687. 

JoHX Chipman, 
b. Barnstable, Eng., 

about 1614. 
d. Sandwich, Mass., 

April 7, 1708. 

Melatiah Bourne, 
b. Sandwich, Mass., 

Jan. 12, 1673-4. 
d. Sandwich, Mass., 

1742-3. 



Bathsheba (Bourne) Newcomb m. 

b. Sandwich, Mass., Sandwich, Mass., 

Nov. 11, 17U3. Sept. 6, 1736. 

d. Hardwick, Mass., 

1787. 



Richard Ruggles 

b. Rochester, Mass., 

March 4, 1743-4. 

d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 
Oct. 21, 1832. 

Welthe Ruggles 

b. Clements, Nova Scotia, 

Sept. 25, 1780. 
d. East Cambridge, Mass., 

Dec. 30, 1854. 

Gilbert Ruggles Tucker 
b. Digby, Nova Scotia, 

Jan. 9, 1807. 
d. Philadelphia, Pa., 

Jan. 30, 1875. 



m. 

1771. 



m. 

1804. 



m. 
Shelburne, N. S. 
Aug. 20, 1821. 



Timothy Ruggles, 
b. Rochester, Mass., 

Oct. 20, 1711. 
d. Wllmot, N. S., 

Aug. 4, 1795. 

Welthe Hathaway, 
b. Freetown Mass., 

Sept. 1, 1750. 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 

Dec. 4, 1824. 

Charles Tucker, 
b. Townsend. Mass., 

Oct. 14, 1782. 
d. Marshfield, Mass., 

1864. 

Evelina Christina Snyder, 
b. Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 
July 8, 1809. 
d. Chicago, 111., 

Sept. 2, 1892. 



William S. S. Tucker 
b. Metaghan, Nova Scotia, 
October 31, 1839 
Livinjr. 



Martha Ann Nesbitt. 
b. Xenia, Ohio, 

Jan. 27, 1843. 
Living. 

IDA NESBITT TUCKER, 



m. 

Dayton, Ohio, 
May 4, 1865. 



(Mrs. Seymour Morris.) 5342 Washington Avenue. 

authorities.— The Mayflower Descendant. Boston, Mass., v. 2, p. 118. 

Howland, F. Genealoj^ical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry and John Howland and 

and their Descendants. Boston, Mass., 18S5. pp. 315, 318, 321, 323, 324. 
Davis, W. T. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. Boston, Mass., 189<). p. 151. 
Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families. Barnstable, Mass., ISSS. v. 1, pp. 

114, 115, 116, 161. 

Chute, W. E. The Chute Family in America. Salem, Mass., 1894. pp. 177, 178, 179. 

Ruggles, H. S. Ruggles Genealogy. Wakefield, Mass., 1892. pp. 78, 79. 

Morris, T. S. Ephraim and Pamela Morris, their Ancestors and Descendants. Chicago, 111.. 
- 1894. pp. 108. 109, 110. 

Paige, Lucius R. History of Hardwick, Mass'. Boston, 1883. pp. 481, 482, 485. 



1 04 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

TILLEY. 

JOHN' TILLEY and his wife came to America in the 
"Mayflower" in 1620, with his daughter Elizabeth. His 
occupation was that of a silk worker. 

He was the sixteenth signer of the " Mayflower" 
compact. 

Gov. Bradford in his list of Mayflower passengers 
gives: ''3 John Tillie, and his wife; and Elizabeth, their 
doughter." 

"John Tilley and his wife both dyed, a litle after 
they came ashore; and their daughter, Elizabeth, marled 
with John Howland and hath. Isae as before noted." 

The name of the wife of John Tilley is in doubt, and 
while there has been a tradition that she was a daughter of 
Gov. Carver, nothing has been found to prove such a claim. 

He served on Dec, 6, 1620, in "The First Encounter" 
at Great Meadow Creek. 

John Tilley and his wife both died during the spring of 
1 62 1 at Plymouth, Mass. 

CIIII.DEEN— FIRST MAKR7A6E. 

I. Elizabeth" , born in 1607; m. John Howland. 



HATHAWAY, 

FIRST GENERATION. 

JOHN HATHAWAY, aged 18, came in the "Bless- 
ing'' in 1635, and settled in Barnstable, Mass. A member 
of the Plymouth Military Company in 1643. He was a: 
resident of Taunton, Mass., in 1649. 

He was brought before the Plymouth Court for lending 
a gun to an Indian. In 1656 he removed to Barnstable, 

Authority : Goodwin, John A. The Pilgrim Republic, Boston, 
(1895), pages 32, 1S3, 184, 186, 300. 

N. Y. Biog. ^ Gen. Record, (iScj'i), Vol. 27, p. 162. 

Bradford, Gov. William: " History of ITimotb PI antati^o,'^ 
pp. 52G and 529. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 105 

and afterwards to Yarmouth, Mass. In 1676 he was chosen 
Constable of Taunton, and Selectman from 1681 to 1684. 

He was a Representative to the General Court at Ply- 
mouth from 1680 to 1684 and 1691, and to the General 
Court of Massachusetts in 1696 and 1697. 

He married (second), Elizabeth -. 

His will was dated August 3, 1689, and probated on 
February 15, 1696-7. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Abraham^ , born , 1652; m. Mrs. Rebecca' 

(Wilbour) Pierce. 

2. Thomas, born . 

3. John, born Aug. 16, 1658. 

4. Hannah, born in May, 1662. 

5. Edward, born Feb. 10, 1663. 

6. Gideon. 



SECOND GENERATION, 



DEACON ABRAHAM^ HATHAWAY, (son of John' 
Hathaway), was born in 1652. He was married on Aug. 
28, 1684, to Mrs. Rebecca (Wilbur) Pierce, {Shadrack^ 
Samuel), [daughter of Shadrach^ Wilbur, of Taunton, 
Mass]. She was born Jan. 13, 1665. He was a black- 
smith, and operated a ferry across Taunton River. He was 
credited Aug. 27, 1675, with ^2, 7s, od, for services per- 
formed in Captain Daniel Henchman's Company in King 
Philip's War. He was a member of the Fourth Squadron 
of the Taunton Militia Company on April 8, 1682. He 
served in King William's War in 1691 under Captain 

S. W. Hathaway, of 34 School Street, Boston, Mass., is now 
(rgoi), collecting material for a Hathaway Genealo.yy. 

On May 30. 1712, part of Taunton was established as Dighton 
The records of births, marriages and deaths begin in 1710. 

Authority : Emery, S. H.; The History of Taunton, Mass,- 
Syracuse, N. Y., (1893), pp. 150, 330, 353 and 397, 563, 571 and 573. 



106 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

Thomas Leonard, and was a member of the first mihtary 
company of Taunton in 1700. 

On Oct. II, 1708, Abraham Hathaway was one of the 
petitioners to the General Court for " The setting off of the 
south part of Taunton into a separate precinct, to be known 
as Dighton." He was chosen Deacon of what afterwards 
became the First Church of Dighton, He died in August, 
1725. 

CHILDBEK. 

1. Abraham^. 

2. Ebcnezer, born May 25, i68g; m. Hannah* Shaw. 

3. Samuel, born in i6go. 

4. John. 

5. Benjamin. 

6. Thomas. -a - . - -■ 

7. Eleazer. ^,.. . :. 

8. Slaadrach. 
q. Rebecca. 



The Will of Abraham Hathaway. 

In the name of God, Amen, the eighteenth day of 
August, in 5'e year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
and twenty-five, I, Abraham Hathway, Sene, of Dighton, in 
ye County of Bristoll in ye Province of ye Massachusetts 
Bay in New England, being arrived to a considderable age 
and being very sick and week in body but through God's 
goodness haveing my reason and understanding and consid- 
dering the uncertainty of this present life and expecting my 
great change every day, and being minded to sett my house in 
order and settle what temporall estate God has lent me before 
ni}^ great change come, doe make and ordain this my last will 
and testament. 

First and principally I recommend and commit my Spirit 
into ye hands of God the Father of it, hopeing through the 
meritts and mediation of my Glorious Redeemer to find 
acceptance with God in ye great day and my body to ye earth 
iL be buried in such decent and Christian manner as by my 



IHK TUCKER GENEALOGY 107 

executor hereafter named shall be thought fitt, and as touch- 
ing such temporall good things as God in his providence has 
lent me, my will and meaning is that the same shall be dis- 
posed of as hereafter in this my last will and testament is 
sett down andspecifyed, hereby revokeing and making null and 
void all other and former wills by me made. 

First of all my will ^nd meaning is that my loveing wife 
Rebeciah Hathway have the improvement, income and bene- 
fitt of ye whole farm on which I now dwell, together with ye 
buildings and edifices erected and standing thereon, as also 
my will is that my sd wife shall have all my cattle, horses, 
sheep and swine with all my household goods during her 
naturall life or so long as shee shall remain my widdow, unless 
shee shall otherwise contract and agree with my children to^ 
whom I have given sd farm after the decease of my sd wife 
and as for my household goods, I give and bequeath them all 
to my wife, except such as I have hereafter given to my 
daughter to be disposed of by her as shee shall think fitt. 

Item, My will is that my loveing son Abram Hathway, 
his heyrs and assignes forever, doe injoy and posess that tract 
or parcell of land lying sittuate in Dighton of which I have 
already given him a deed, judging that it be his part or por- 
tion of my estate. 

Item, My will is that my loveing son Thomas Hathway, 
his heyrs and assignes forever doe injoy and posess that tract 
or parcell of land lying sittuate in Dighton, of which I have 
given him a deed, judging that to be his full part or portion 
of my estate. 

Item, My will is and I give and bequeath to my loveing 
son Ebenezer Hathway, his heyrs and executors forever and 
the children of my loving son Shadrack Hathway diceased 
and their heyrs and assigns forever, my purchass right in 
Taunton with all the divission alreaddy granted and not laid 
out and that not alreaddy been disposed of by me as also my 
share and interest in the Iron Works att Freetown. 

Item, I give and bequeath to my son Samuell Hathway 
the one third part of the northeast half of the farm on which 
I now dwell as also the one third part of the land I bought of 



lOS THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

Richard Godfrey late of Taunton, disceased, as also of that 
ten acres given to my Hond. father deceased, by the Town of 
Taunton, both parcells and tracts of sd land being looked 
upon and accounted as a part of my sd farm, as also a third 
part of ye land lying near to m)' son Thomas Hathway in 
Dighton, which I have not as yet disposed off. 

Item, I give and bequeath to my son John Hathway, his 
heyrs and assigns forever, the one moiety or half part of the 
farm on which I now dwell, viz : — the southwest half of it 
with all ye buildings and edifices thereon standing, as also the 
one halfe of what cattle sheep and swine my wife shall leave 
att her death, as also my cart plow chains and other utensils 
that are improved in farming, he to enter into possession of 
sd farm cattle and utensils att or upon the death of my sd 
wife, he paying the whole sum of money that I am indebted 
to the Honbl. Paul! Dudley Eq. and for which this my sd 
farm is under mortgage to him as also he paying the sum of 
fifty pounds in bills of publick credditt to my loving daughter 
Rebeckah Hathway. 

Item, I give and bequeath to my loveing son Benjamin 
Hathway the one third part of ye northwest half of ye farm 
on which I now dwell, that land which I bought of Richard 
Godfray of Taunton, diceased, as also the ten acres of land 
given by the Town of Taunton to my sd Hond. father, de- 
ceased, being accounted and looked upon as being a part of 
sd farm, as also the one third part of a tract or parcell of land 
lying near to my son Thomas Hathways. 

Item, I give and bequeath to my loveing son Eleazer 
Hathway his heyrs and assignes forever, the one third part of 
ye northwest half of ye farm on which I now dwell, the land 
which I bought of Richard Godfrey late of Taunton diseased, 
as also ye ten acres of land given by ye Town of Taunton to 
my Hond. father disceased, being looked upon and accounted 
a part of sd farm, as also ye one third part of a tract or 
parcell of land lying near to my son Thomas Hathway. 

Item, I give and bequeath to my loveing daughter 
Rebeckah Hathway her heyrs and assigns forever the sura of 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 109 

fifty pounds for bills of public credditt of this Province to be 
payd to her by my sd son John Hathway whom I have here- 
after appointed the executor of this my last will and testa- 
ment, when so soon as shee shall come to ye age of twenty- 
one years or upon her marriage day, as also I give and be- 
queath to her my sd daughter two cows, one feather bed with 
ye furniture belonging to it and a great brass kittle, all which 
my will shee shall injoy and possess when and so soon as shee 
come to ye age of twenty one years, provided her mother see 
cause, as also my will is that my sd daughter shall have ye 
privilege and beniffitt of a fire room in my dwelling house, so 
long as shee shall remain unmarried. 

Item, My will is that what of my stock shall be left att 
ye discease of my wife yt is not otherwise disposed of allreddy 
be equally divided betwixt my son Abrani Hathway and 
Thomas "Thomas" Hathway. 

And my will and desire is that my loveing fr ends, Capt. 
Jared Talbott, Deacon Joseph Dean and Leutt. Ebenezer 
Pitts doe make a devision of this my sd farm among the chil- 
dren to whom I have willed and bequeathed and that accord- 
ing to ye true intent and meaning of this my last will and 
testament, unless my sd children shall agree among them- 
selves. 

Finally my will is and I doe bj' these presents constitute 
and appoint my son John Hathway sole executor of this my 
last will and testament and in testimony that this is my last 
will and testament and no other "other" to be looked upon 
as such, I have hereunto sett my hand and affixed my seal the 
day and year first above written. 

Abram Hathway, Seal 

Signed, sealed and declared by the sd Abram Hathway to 
be his last will and testament in presence of us, 

Jared Talbut 
Nathel. Fisher 
Elizabeth Carv 
Approved April 19, 1726. 



1 1 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

THIRD GENERATION. 

LIEUT. COL. EBENEZERS HATHAWAY, {Dea. 
Abraliavi^ , /ohn^), [son of Deacon Abraham^ and Re- 
becca^ (Wilber) Hathaway], was born May 25, 1689, in 
Taunton, Mass. On the 8th day of March, 171 1, he was 
rmxneAio Hannah^ Shazv {Benjatnin^ , Johiv'^ Abraham'^), 
[daughter of Benjamin^ and Hannah Shaw, of Taunton, 
Mass.] She was born about 1693 and died Dec. 20, 1727, 
aged 34. Resided at Freetown, Mass. He married (2nd), 
Mary — . 

He was Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Regiment 
Bristol County Militia in 1749. 

His will is dated the 24th of September, 1764, and 
proved Feb. 29, 1768. 

Their grave stones read : 

IN MEMORY OF 

COL. EBENEZER HATHAWAY, 

WHO DIED FEB. YE i6tH, I768, 

IN THE 7gTH YEAR 

OF HIS AGE. 

Under these silent clois I sleep, 

In C4RIST may I arise, 
And when the Angel G;ibriel sou ads? 

Meet JESUS in the skies. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. HANNAH, 

WIFE OF COL. EBENEZER HATHAWAY, 

WHO DIED DEC. YE 20TH, 1 727, 

IN THE 34TH YEAR 

OF HER AGE. 

Soon must the rising dead appear, 
Soon the decisive sentence hear. 



Reference : N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 8, p. 385, 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY HI 

CHII^DREN. 

1. Abigail*, born March 25. 1716. 

2. Ebcnezer^, born July 11, 1718; m. Welthe^ Gilbert. 

3. Silas, born Sept. 2, 1721. 

4. Hannah, born May 12, 1724. 

5. Benjamin, born May 12, 1726. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

CAPTAIN EBENEZER* HATHAWAY, [Lieut. Col. 
Ebenezer^ , Dea. Abraham" , Joh?i^), [son of Lieut. Col. 
Ebenezer^ and Hannah* (Shaw) Hathaway], was born 
July II, 17 18. He was married in 1744 to Welthe^ Gil- 
bert [Nathaniel'^., Thomas^, Thomas'^, John^), [daughter 
of Nathaniel* and Hannah* (Bradford) Gilbert]. He died 
June 16, 1791, at Freetown, Mass. 

Ebenezer Hathaway of Berkley, Mass., was a private in 
Captain Elijah Walker"s Company of Colonel John Hatha- 
way's Regiment. He served twenty-one days. His com- 
pany marched from Dighton to Tiverton, R. I., April 23, 
1777. Roll sworn to at Taunton 

His grave stone has the following : 

IN MEMORY OF 

CAPT. EBEN^ HATHAWAY, 

WHO DIED JUNE i6tH, I79I, 

IN YE 73D YEAR 

OF HIS AGE. 

This is the end of all that live, 

This is my dark long home; 
Jesus himself lay in the grave, 

The house whence all must come. 



Authority : Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of 
the Revolution. Boston, 1900. Vol. 7, p. 511. 

N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 8, p. 286. 



112 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

cniLBREisr. 

1. Gilbert^, born Feb. 6, 1745-6. 

2. Tryphena, born Feb. 6, 1745-6. 

3. Ebenezer, born July 25, 1748. 

4. Welthe^ , born Sept. i, 1750; m. Richard^ Ruggles 

5. Shadrach, born June 9, 1752. 

6. Calvin, born June 9, 1752. 

7. Luther. .,^' 
Hannah. (XAi^JLA>^ 



8 



Will of Ebenezer Hathaway. 
In the Name of God, Amen. I, Ebenezer Hathev/ay of 
Freetown, in the County of Bristol in ye Massachusetts Bay 
in New England Esqr. being of a sound disposing mind 
through divine goodness and not knowing how soon my dis- 
solution may come, do make and ordain this my last will and 
testament, in manner following : First, I leave my soul in 
the hands of Christ my Merciful Saviour and dear Redeemer 
and my body to be decently buried in ye earth in hopes of a 
joyfull resurrection. As to my worldly estate which God hath 
given me I dispose thereof as followeth, first of all let my just 
debts and funeral charges be paid. 

Firstly, I give and bequeath unto m)' beloved wife Mary 
Hatheway two good featl er beds, with fur: iture thereunto 
belonging, three silver spoons, two puter basons, one to hold 
two quarts & ye other one quart, one chest of drawers, one 
table now standing in the great chamber, one iron pot one 
iron kittle, two iron skillets, six pint puter basons, six puter 
porringers, three flowered earthern platters now standing in 
my beaufat, a pair of andirons fit for my great chamber as 
also tongs & fire shovel fit for the same, a tea kittle and tea 
pot, one dozen of tea dishes with saucers thereunto belong- 
ing, one dozen of tea spoons, two water pails, one washing 
tubb, six puter plates, one large flowered earthern platter, six 
chairs and one great one, two puter platters all the above 
mentioned to be at her disposal forever. And now what 
follows, I give to her during her natural life or while she re- 
mains my widow, viz : — the improvement of my great chambeff 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 113 

with the two bed rooms therein, as also as much fire wood as 
is needfull to keep her fire, brought to the door and cutt fit for 
her use. I also give her six Spanish mild dollars yearly, to be 
paid unto her or in other money equivalent, as also one 
hundred wait of good brown sugar, one barrel of flower and 
as much wheat, rye and indian meal as she shall want for her 
own spending; also as much salt beef and pork & fresh meat as 
she shall need for her own use, six pound of tea, four pound 
of chocolate, four pound of coffee and the privilege of gather- 
ing as much green corn & beans as she wants for her own 
eating, as also of gathering as much fruit in my orchard for 
summer and winter as she shall have occasion for her own 
eating; further it is my will that my said widow shall have ye 
privelege of passing and repassing to and from said chamber 
given for her use, as also of baking in my oven below with 
wood suitably cutt therefor and to sit by the fire in my lower 
great room if she pleases. I also give her yearly ten pound 
of good wooll and ten pound of flax as also ye milk of two 
cows, said cows to be kept for her winter and summer, and 
when said cows shall be dry to return the same to my sons 
and take her choice of two other cows and so from year to 
year during her natural life or my widow, as also the use of 
my chaise and a horse to draw it when she hath a mind to ride 
and if my said widow should marry again she shall have one 
cow to her own disposal forever. I also order that my execu- 
tors hereafter mentioned shall pay & fullfiU this my will 
respecting my widow in every perticular mentioned, and that 
each executor shall pay towards the same in equal proportion 
to what I have given unto them. 

2ly. I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Ebenezer 
Hatheway all my homestead farm in Freetown, lying on the 
east side of the road or highway that leads by my house with 
all the buildings and priveledges thereunto belonging, as also 
the one half of my grist mill; also one third and two thirds of 
another third of my forge & coal house, as also one third and 
two thirds of another third of all my land and cedar swamp 
that lies in Middleborough ; as also the one half of my land 
in Plymouth, adjoining upon a brook caled red brook; as 
also one third and two thirds of another third of my salt 



] 1 -1- THE TUCKER GEN EAI OGY 

meadov/ & thatch lying in Freetown, accounting what I have 
already given to my said son by deed of gift as part of his 
portion I also give to my said son all my land in Berkley that 
lies on ye northerly side of the road that leads from Deacon 
Samuel Tubbs to Major Ebenezer Winslows; as also eight 
acres on the south side of said road to be taken off adjoyning 
to the land I gave to Samuel Axtell running southerly the 
whole breadth of my land as also two acres of swamp meadow 
adjoyning upon land of Deacon Ebenezer Crane or Thomas 
Briggs or both; as also one third and two thirds of another 
third of all my moveables excepting what my widow shall 
take, to him his heirs and assigns forever. 

3ly. I give and bequeath unto my second son Silas 
Hatheway, the one half of my grist mill and one third and 
another third of a third of my forage & coal house, all lying 
in Freetown, as also one third and a third of another third of 
all my land and cedar swamp that lies in Middieborough, as 
also the one half of my land lying in Plymouth adjoyning 
upon a brook called red brook; as also one third and a third 
of a third of my salt meadow & thatch lying in Freetown, 
accounting what 1 have already given to my said son by deed 
of gift as part of his portion; further I give to my said son 
Silas Hatheway all my land and meadow in Berkley which I 
have not already disposed of by will with all the buildings and 
privcleges thereunto belonging; as also one third and a third 
of another third of all my moveables which my said widow 
shall not take, to him his heirs and assigns forever. 

4ly. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah^ 
Axtell one good feather bed with the furniture thereunto 
belonging; as also eight pound lawfull money to be paid unto 
her yearly for the space of ten years, in cloathing or provision 
as rny said daughter shall chuse, and by my two sons Ebene- 
zer & Silas in equal proportion to what I have given unto 
them, whom I order to pay ye above said legacy to my said 
daughter Hannah or to her heirs or assigns. 

Lastly, I do constitute and appoint my two sons Ebenezer 
& Silas Hatheway to be the sole executors of this my last will 
& testament, impowering of them to receive and recover all 
that is justly due unto me and to pa)^ all my just debts and 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 115 

funeral charges out of my estate before there is any division 
made of it and to see that this my last will and testament be 
fulfilled in every respect, declaring this and none but this to 
bemy last will and testament. 

In witness wheieof I have hereunto set my hand & seal 
this twenty-fourth day of September in the fourth year of his 
Majesties Reign Anno Domini 1764 

Ebenezer Hatheway, Seal. 

Signed, sealed, pronounced and declared by Ebenezer 
Hatheway to be his last will & testament, in presence of us. 

John Paul 2d. 
Samuel Tobey 
Samuel Tobey J ur. 
Approved February 29, 1768. 



WILBUR, 



SERJ. SAMUELi WILBUR, of Portsmouth, R. I., 
Boston and Taunton, Mass. Was a freeman March 4, 1633. 
On Dec. i, 1633, he was admitted to the church with 
his wife, Ann Bradford.* Nov. 10, 1634, he was tax 
Assessor; Jan. 24, 1639, Constable; March 16, 1641, free- 
man of Rhode Island. He married (second), Elizabeth 
Lechford, widow of Thomas Lechford. She joined the 
church in Boston Nov. 29, 1645. 

He was chosen clerk of the train band June 27, 1638; 
was appointed Sergeant in 1644. 

On Nov. 20, 1637, for sympathy with Wheelwright, he 
was banished and went to Rhode Island with thern. 

He was one of the proprietors of the Taunton Iron 
Works from 1653 to 1654. 

* Daughter of Thos. Bradford of Doncaster, County York, Eng. 

Authority : Emery, S. H.; The History of Taunton, Mass.; 
Syracuse, N. Y., (1893), p. 618. 

Austin, John O.: A Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, 
Providence, (1887), pp. 227, 238. 



116 THE TUCKKR CENKAT.CGY 

His will was dated April 30, 1656, and proved Nov. 
I, 1656. He died Sept. 29, 1656. His estate inventoried 
at ;^282, 19s, 6d. 

CniLDREN— FIHST MARHIAGR. 

1. Samuel*, born at Portsmouth, R. I. 

2. Joseph, born at Taunton, Mass. 

3. Shadrach'^ , born at Taunton, Mass. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

SHADRACH3 WILBUR [son of Serj. Samuel and 
Ann (Bradford) Wilbur], was born in Taunton, Mass. He 

married Hannah . He was Town Clerk from 1665 

to 1695. Member of the Grand Jury in 1674. 

" On October 27, 1685, he was granted liberty to sell 
strong liquor by the gallon, if careful not to sell to such as 
will abuse same." 

On August 30, T687, a warrant was issued for his 
arrest on the charge that he "Hath lately in the name 
and with the consent of said town, written and published a 
certain scandalous, factious and seditious writing therein 
very much reflecting and contemning the laws, authorities 
and government of this His Majesty's territory and Domin- 
ion of New England." 

He suffered imprisonment for a time under Sir Edmund 
Andros. 

His will was dated Sept. 12, 1696, proved March i, 
1697-8, and bequeaths : 

" Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Re- 
becah, the now wife of Abraham Hathaway, ten pounds 
sterling, besides what she hath had formerly." 

The inventory amounted to £772, os, od. 

Authority: Emery, S. H.; The History of Tauuton, Mass.; 
Syracuse, N. Y., (189;^), p. 567. 

Bristol County, Mass., Probate Records, Vol. i, p. 213. 



IHK lUCKEk GENEALOtiV 117 

CHlLDHKHi. 

I. Sarah ^, born . 

2. Mary, born March 8, 1662. 

3. Samuel, born April i, 1663. 

4 J^edetrca^ , horn ] Sin. 13, 1665; m. Abraham* Hathaway. 

5. Hannah, born Feb. 24, i658. 

6. Joseph, born July 27, 1670. 

7. Shadrach, born Dec. 5, 1672. 

8. John, born March 2, 1675. 

9. Eleazer, born July 1, 1677. 
ID. Benjamin, born July 23, 1683. 



SHAW, 



ABRAHAM' SHAW, of HaHfax, County York, Eng- 
land, was a clothier, and came to America in 1636, 

He settled at Watertown, Mass. His house and goods 
were burned there in October, 1636. 

In 1638 he removed to Dedham, Mass., and was one 
of the signers of the covenant. 

He was a Freeman March 9, 1636-7. He had on 
Nov, 2, 1637, a grant of half the coal and iron to be 
found in common lands. 

September 6, 1638, he was a Constable. 

He removed to Cambridge and was a town officer in 
1640. March 26, 1637, he received permission to erect a 
corn-mill. 

He died between Oct. 10, 1638, and March 25, 1639. 

His son, Joseph Shaw, and son-in-law, Nicholas Byram, 
administered on his estate. 

CHrT.T>RKN. 

T . Joseph. 



Ho 

2. John; 111. Alice ^ ■■ — \ 

3. Mary. 

4. Martha. 



lis IHK TI'CKKK (;iiNKAI.O<;y. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

JOHN* SHAW (son of Abraham^ Shaw), was born in 
England. 

He married Alice , and on arriving in America 

settled in Weymouth, Mass. March 1 1, 1705-6 a division 
of his estate was made. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John'^. 

2. Elizabeth, born February 26, 1656. 

3. Abraham, born October 10, 1657. 

4. Mary, born March 24, 1660. 

5. Nicholas, born March 23, 1662. 

6. Joseph, born April 15, 1644. 

7. Alice, born July 6, 1666, 

8. Hannah, born April 7, 1668. 

9. Benjamin^ , born June 16, 1670; m. Hannah . 

10. Abigail, born July 15, 1672. 

11. Ebenezcr, born April 24, 1674. 



IHIRU GENERATION. 

BENJAMIN^ SHAW {John\ Abraham^), [son of 
John* and Alice Shaw], was born in Weymouth, Mass., 
June 16, 1670, and removed to Taunton. 

He served under Major Thomas Leonard in the expedi- 
tion to Canada in 171 1. He was a member of the first 
military company of Taunton on May 30, 1700. 

He died June 16, 1723. His widow, Hannah, died 
May 26, 1724. 

CHILDHEN. 

Benjamin*, born , 



Hatwah^ , born in 1693; m. Ebenezer^ Hathaway. 

Susannah, born Feb. 6, 1698-9, at Weymouth. 

Samuel. 

Sarah. 

Ebenezer. 

Jonathan. 

Abigail. 



the tucker genealogy 119 

Will of Benjamin Shaw. 

In the name of God, Amen. I, Benjamin Shaw, the eld- 
est of that name in Taunton, in the County of Bristol), in the 
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, being 
well sencible of my mortality, but of reasonable good health 
and of sound mind & memory through the goodness of the 
Blessed God, I do make this my last will and testament, 
which is as followeth : 

First, I give and bequeath my Soul to God that gave it 
and Redeemed it with the blood of his son our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

Secondly, I give and bequeath my body to the grave to 
be decently buried by my executors therein after named, in 
hopes of a joyfuil Resurrection. And as for my outward or 
worldly estate which God of his goodness hath given me, I 
give and bequeath and dispose of as followeth : — 

First, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Hannah 
Shaw (after my honest debts are payed and funeral charges 
defrayed) the use and benefitt of the new end of my now 
dwelling house, as also the use of my barn, which are now in 
my improvement, and the northward end of that lott where 
Thomas Caswell formerly dwelt, viz : — so far southward as to 
the petition fence & the use of the orchard in said northward 
end. I also give and bequeath to my said wife, the improve- 
ment of one third part of those lands which I have hereinafter 
given to my sons Jonathan Shaw & Ebenezer Shaw as also 
one quarter part of my moveable estate. I also give to my 
said beloved wife two thirds of the timber and wood that is 
on the land as I have hereinafter given to my son Samuel 
Shaw; "A" that those perticuler which are above specified as 
given to my beloved wife is to be understood to be to and for 
my beloved wife she continuing my widow (I also give and 
bequeath to my beloved wife and to her heirs and assigns 
forever all the gold and silver and paper money, which shall 
be mine in my house unspent att the time of my decease). 

Secondly, I give and bequeath to my son Benjamin Shaw 
and to his heirs and assigns forever, viz : — my wearing" appar- 
rell, as also my land on the southward side of the Great River 
in said Taunton, and the house which I built for him, near 



120 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

Three Mile River in said Taunton, I also give and bequeath 
to my son Benjamin Shaw and to his heirs and assigns for- 
ever, the southward end of that lott where Thomas Caswell 
formerly dwelt so farr northward as the petition fence; also I 
give to my son Benjamin as aforesaid, all my right in the 
commons or undivided lands in said Taunton, as also one 
quarter part in the saw mill which stands on the Iron Works 
River, as also one quarter part of my right in the cedar swamp, 
as also one quarter part of my out door moveable estate, after 
my wife hath taken out her share as is above expressed, those 
I give to my son Benjamin Shaw and to his heirs and assigns 
forever, he (or such as shall legally represent him) paying to 
his sister, my daughter Susanna Shaw (or such as shall legally 
represent her) fifteen pounds att the time she arive to the age 
of eighteen years, or if she marry sooner, then at the time of 
her marriage. 

Thirdly, I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Shaw and 
to his heirs and assigns forever, all my lands where his house 
is built and a peace of land that lyes on the north side of the 
way that goes over Pale Brook to Rock Plain, as also another 
piece of land that lyes on the south side of said way; and 
they lye on the east side of Neck Plain "Plain " (so called) 
excepting two thirds of all the wood & timber which is on the 
lands as I give to my son Samuel Shaw aforesaid, for two 
thirds of said timber and wood I give to my beloved wife, she 
continuing my widow, and after my wife, I give said two 
thirds of wood to my two sons Jonathan Shaw and Ebenezer 
Shaw, as hereafter expressed; I also give to my son Samuel 
Shaw, one quarter part of my right in the saw mill and one 
quarter part of my right in the cedar swamp, and a quarter 
part of my out door moveable estate, after my beloved wife 
hath taken out her share as aforesaid. These I give to my son 
Samuel Shaw and to his heirs and assigns forever (excepting 
the timber & wood as before expressed) he (or such as shall 
legally represent him) paying to his sister, my daughter, 
Sarah Shaw, or such as shall legally represent her thirty 
pounds when and so soon as she arive to the age of eighteen 
years or before if she be married sooner. A further declara- 
tion of my will is that my son Samuel shall if he thinks fit 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 121 

may improve the old orchard which was formerly John 
Caswell, as also a strap of lands eight rods wide joyning to 
land of Benjamin Halls near my house, viz : — eight rods wide 
att the land and eight rods wide att the Great River, said 
Samuel Shaw to maintain that eight rods of fence next 
to the highway joyning to Benjamin Halls corner. And my 
son Samuel Shaw to improve these two pieces of land until 
my son Ebenezer Shaw arive to the age of twenty and one 
years. If my son Ebenezer live so long (or to the time as he 
would arive at that age if he should not) provided that my son 
Samuel Shaw shall not turn creatures into these pieces of land 
except he be att the charge to fence them "off" from other 
lands. 

Fourthly, I give and bequeath to my two sons Jonathan 
Shaw & Ebenezer Shaw all my other lands as I have not dis- 
posed off, to them and to their heirs and assigns forever, after 
that they arive to the age of twenty and one years as and in 
such order as is herein expressed; viz : After my son Jona- 
than come to the age of twenty and one years, he to have the 
improvement of two thirds of his half (excepting Thomas 
Caswells old orchard so called) he that is my son Jonathan to 
have his half of that after his mother my wife and his mother 
haveing the improvement of one third of my son Jonathans 
part during her continuance my widow, and also I give to my 
son Ebenezer Shaw and to his heire and assigns forever, after 
he come of the age of twenty and one years the improvement 
of two thirds of the rest of my lands att home (except what 
I have given to my wife she continuing my widow, viz : — 
Thomas Caswels old orchard so called) and after my wife my 
son Jonathan and my son Ebenezer Shaws to have the whole 
of my lands att home, viz : — all excepting what I have herein 
given to my sons Bsnjamin Shaw and Samuel Shaw as afore- 
said. And after my wife, my will is that ray sons Jonathan 
Shaw and Ebenezer Shaw & their heirs and assigns forever 
that they have two thirds of the timber and wood that is on 
the lands that I have herein given to my son Samuel Shaw as 
is before expressed. And that I give to my son Jonathan 
Shaw, one quarter of my right in the savV mill above men- 
tioned, and a quarter part of my right in the cedar swamp. 



122 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

and a quarter part of my out door moveable estate, these I 
give to my son Jonathan Shaw, and also to Ebenezer Shaw I 
give a quarter part of my right in the aforesaid saw mill, and 
a quarter part of my right in the cedar swamp, and a quarter 
part of my out door moveable estate, viz, after their mother 
hath taken out her share as is above expressed, viz, my son 
Jonathan Shaw and such as shall legally represent him paying 
to his sister, my daughter, Abigail Shaw or such as shall 
legally represent her, thirty pounds when she come to the age 
of eighteen years, or if she marry sooner then att the time of 
her marriage. And my son Ebenezer Shaw to have what I 
have willed to him as aforesaid he or such as shall legally 
represent him paying to his sister, my daughter, Susanna 
Shaw or such as shall represent her, fifteen pounds when and 
so soon as she arive to the age of eighteen years, or when she 
shall marry, if she marry before she come to that age. 

Fifthly, I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah 
Hathway and to her heirs and assigns forever, one quarter 
part of my utensils or household goods, after the decease of 
my wife, she, viz, my daughter Hannah haveing already re- 
ceived a full share as to a equall part with her sisters. 

Sixthly, I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Shaw 
and to her heirs and assigns forever, or such as shall legally 
represent her thirty pounds which I have willed that my son 
Samuel Shaw or his legall representatives should pay to her 
as is above expressed as also one quarter part of my utentials 
after the decease of her mother my wife. 

Seventhly, I give and bequeath to my daughter Abigail 
Shaw or such as shall legally represent her and to their heirs 
and assigns forever, thirty pounds which I have willed that 
my son Jonathan Shaw or such as shall legally represent him, 
should pay to her as aforesaid. I also give to my daughter 
Abigail Shaw one quarter part of my utentials after the de- 
cease of her mother my wife or to her legall representatives. 

Eighthly, I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna 
Shaw and her legall representatives thirty pounds, fifteen 
pounds I have ordered that my son Benjamin Shaw or his 
legall representatives should pay her or such as shall legally 
represent her as is before expressed, and the other fifteen 



THE I'CCKliK IJKNKALOGV. U'3 

pounds which I give to my daughter Susanna Shaw I have 
ordered and willed that my son Ebenezer Shaw (or such as 
shall legally represent him) shall pay her or to such as shall 
legally represent her att such time as is before expressed. 

Ninthly, I do by these presents declare that my will is 
that in case any of my sons should dye or decease & leave no 
children as heirs honnestly begotten of their own bodys, and 
those lands which I have herein given to them not disposed 
of by them in their life time, in every such case the surviving 
brethren and such as shall represent them, shall be equall 
shareors in those lands which I give to theni, or in case any of 
my daughters should decease, and leave no children born 
of them and also surviving, in every such case the liveing 
sisters my daughters, or such as shall legally represent them 
(they in their life time not having otherwise disposed of that 
which I give to them). In every such case the liveing of my 
daughters and their legal representatives shall be equall 
sharers in those goods and legacies which I give amongst my 
daughters. 

Tenthly, and lastly I do by these presents nominate and 
appoint my true and loving wife Hannah Shaw and my 
eldest son Benjamin Shaw to be my joynt executors of this 
my last will and testament, whom I order and appoint to pay 
all m.v honest debts, and whom I also impower to receive all 
that is honestly due to me, and in testimony that this is my 
last will and testament, I do revoke and make void and null 
all other conveyances whatsoever, and as a farther testimony 
that this is my last will and testament, I, Benjamin Shaw do 
and hath hereunto sett my hand and seal tiiis seventh day of 
March in the year of our Lord Christ seventeen hundred and 
nineteen-twenty and in the sixth year of the Reign of our 
Souverign Lord George by the Grace of God of Great Brittain 
France & Ireland King Defender of the faith. 

Benjamin Shaw. [Seal] 



Approved July loth, 1723, 
Recorded in Book 4, page 185. 



126 iHK iftfvKK i;knkai,()i;y. 

GILBERT. 

KlRsr (IKNKRATroN. 

JOHN^ GILBERT, "a grave, honest gentleman," 
came in the "Mary and John" in 1630 with his two sons, 
Thomas and John. They settled in Dorchester, Mass. 

He was a freeman of Plymouth Colony Dec. 4. 1636. 
About 1636 he removed to Taunton. He was a Represen- 
tative in 1639, Constable in 1638, and in 1641 received a 
grant of forty acres of land for "their great charges in 
attending courts, laying out lands, and other occasions for 
the town." 

In August, 1643, he was a member of the military 
company of Yarmouth, Mass., under Lieut. Wm. Palmer. 

He was one of the proprietors of the Taunton Iron 
Works in 1653-4. 

His will is dated May 10, 1654, and probated June 3, 
1657. 

His wife Winifred survived him. 

CHILDREN. 

I. Thomas'; m. Jane^ Rossiter. 
John. 
Gvles. 



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J) 



4. Joseph. 



J- 



Mary. 



Kx tract from the will of Jobn Gilbert, which was dated May 10, 1654: 

" I, John Gilbert, of Pondsbrook, in Taunton, though being in good 
health and of perfect memory, ... my body to be buried 
near my house at Pondsbrook upon the hill near the pine tree. 
. To my son Gyles, my farm at Pondsbrook, one hundred 
acres, with the house, houses and commons there belonging, ten 
acres of meadow lying at Scadingsmore, one yoke of my 2nd 
biggest oxen, named CoUiar and Browne, 2 cows named Cherry 
and Colly, 2 Stears named Summer and Winter, etc. Inventory 
liled June 3, 1657. 

"I give 10 bushels ot Indian corn unto such as have most need ot 
corn in the town to be disposed of at the discretion of the deacons 
of the deacons of the Church at Taunton." 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 127 

SECOND GENERATION. 

- THOMAS « GILBERT (son of John^ and Winifred 
Gilbert), was born in England. 

He settled with his parents in Dorchester and later 
removed to Taunton. 

" Thomas Gilbert & Jane Rossiter of Taunton, married 
the xxiijth of March 1639." She was a daughter of Hugh 
Rossiter of Dorchester. 

Governor Winthrop, in his " History of New Eng- 
land," has given an account of Thomas Gilbert in the follow- 
ing official statement : 

"In the Eighth month, August 18, 1636, Thos. Gil- 
bert was brought before us. He was drunk at Sargeant 
Boulston's and the constable being sent for, he struck him. 

" He was kept in prison all night and the next day his 
father, John Gilbert, and his brother John Gilbert of 
Dorchester undertook in ;^40 that John Gilbert the 
younger would appear at Court to answer for him and per- 
form the order of the Court, etc. The reason was, that he 
was to go to England presently and not to be known to 
have been in any way disordered, and was his father's 
oldest son, who was a grave honest gentleman, etc. They 
did undertake, also that he should acknowledge his fault 
openly to the constable, etc. It is well that we have the 
testimony from the record, that this was a most surprisingly 
extraordinary incident in the history of Thos. Gilbert, not 
known to have been in any way disordered, in such an 
unseemly manner, is an inference from that fact, that the 
good people of Taunton, of rigid Puritan practice, elected 
Tho?. Gilbert in 165 i to the General Court." 

Authority: Emery, S. H., Ministry of Taunton, Vol. r, p. 59. 
Emery, S. H., The History of Taunton, Mass., Syracuse, N. Y., 
(1893) , pp. 618. 571, 573. 

Plymouth Colony Rocords, Boston (1855), Vol. i, p. 143 
N. E. H. & G., Register, Vol. 4, p. 258; Vol. 52, p. 29. 
Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. 3, part 2. 



128 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

" He, with six others, received a grant of 40 acres of 
land in 1641, lying together in some convenient place for 
their great charge in attending courts, laying out of lands 
and other occasions for the town." 

In August, 1643, Thomas Gilbert was a member of 
the military company of Taunton, Mass., commanded by 
Capt. William Poole. 

In 1643 he was a Freeman. Selectman in 1648 and 
165 I. Constable in 1648. Representative to the General 
Court in 1652. 

He was one of the proprietors of the Taunton Iron 
Works in 1653. 

"He went to England in 1653, and died there in 
1676. The inventory of the estate of Thomas Gilbert, de- 
ceased, beyond the seas, was sworn to the 5th of July, 1677." 

His widow died in January, 1691. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Thotnas^, born in 1643; m. Dec. i8, 1676, Ann* 

Blake. 

2. Jane. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

— ' ENSIGN THOMAS^ GILBERT {Thomas\ John'), 
[son of Thomas^ and Jane^ (Rossiter) Gilbert], was born in 
1643 at Taunton, Mass. On Dec. 18, 1676, he was married 
in Boston to Ann^ Blake {William^, William^), [daughter 
of Wilham' and Hannah Blake], born March 6, 1652-3, in 
Milton. He was Constable in 1677. 

He was selectman in 1696, 1699, 1702, 1703, 1707-13. 
171 5 and 1718. 

On April 8, 1682, he was a member of the Fourth 
Squadron of the Taunton Military Company. 

He was chosen third Sergeant of the First Military 



THE TUCKER GENF.AT.OGY 129 

Company of Taunton in 1691, Sargeant in 1700, and Ensign 
of the Second or Westward Foot Company of Taunton in 
1704. 

She died May 9, 1722, aged 70. He died April 20, 
1725, aged 82. 



The Will of Thomas Gilbert. 

In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Gilbert of Taunton, in the 
County of Bristol iu ye Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England 
being of sound memory, and disposing mind through divine goodness, tho' 
labouring under the infirmities of old age, do make this to be my last will & 
testliment, my soul I commit to God in Christ "by" body to ye earth by 
decent buryall; after my just debts are paid, to m.y worldly estate that God 
hath given me I have ye greatest part thereof already disposed of to & 
amongst my children, the remainder I dispose of as followeth : 

Imprimis, To my son Nathaniel Gilbert I have already given him his full 
shair, part & portion by deed, for which he has acquitted my estate to the rest 
of my children & and he is to pay my furniral charges. 

To the legal representatives of my daughter Hannah Phillips, deceased, 
viz: Hannah Leonard, Mehetable Leonard & Lydia Willis, I give five shillings 
each and no more, haveing already considered them out of my estate, and to 
ye legal representatives of my daughter Mary Williams, deceased, viz: Eleza- 
beth and Annah Williams I give twenty shillings each, haveing also already 
considered her sd Mary out of my estate. And to my daughters now living, 
Sarah Willis, Susannah Hodges and Experience Townsend I give to them 
theyr, heyrs & assigns forever, to have after my decease all my estate both 
real' & personal that I shall die seased of, and do constitute my son-in-law 
William Hodges to be my executor to this my last will & testtiment, and do 
hereby revoke & make void all former wills by me heretofore made. 

In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this nineteenth 
day of January Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred twenty-two-three in 
the ninth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord George ot Great Brittayn 
&c. King. 

Thomas Gilbert, (Seal). 

Signed, sealed & declared to be his last will & testtiment, in presence 
of us. 

Samuel Wii.ijams 
Seth Williams 
Samuel Williams Jnn. 

Approved July 14, 1726. 

Authority: Emery, S. H.; The History of Taunton, Mass., Syracuse, 
N. Y., (1893), page 330, 337, 353, 563, 571. 



130 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



CHILDREN. 



1. Hannah*, born Sept. 28, 1677. 

2. Sarah, born Aug. 11, 1679. 

3. Mary, born Aug. 11, 1679. 

4. Thomas, born July 11, 1681. 

5. Nathaniel^, born July 19, 1683; m. Hannah* Brad- 

ford. 

6. Mehitable, born May 5, 1686. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 



CAPTAIN NATHANIEL* GILBERT, {Thomas\ 
Thomas^ , John^'), [son of Thomas^ and Ann^ (Blake) Gil- 
bert], was born in Taunton, Mass., July 19, 1683. He 
was married in Duxbury, Mass., June 6, 1709, to Hannah* 
Bradford, {Samuel^, Major Willi aiir , Governor Williavi'^), 
[daughter of SamueP and Hannah* (Rogers) Bradford], 
who was born Feb. 14, 1689-90. 

Captain Nathaniel* Gilbert's Will. 

In the name of God, Amen, I, Nathaniel Gilbert of Berkley in the County 
of Bristol in New England, Gentn. this second day of June Anno Domini 1757, 
and in the thirtieth year of his Majesties Reign George ye Second &c King, 
being through God's goodness advanced to old age, but still of a sound judg- 
ment and disposing mind, thanks be to God therefore, but calling to mind the 
mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die do make 
and ordain this and no other to be my last will & testament, that is to say, 

Principally and above all, I give & recommend ray soul into the hands of 
God that gave it in hopes of salvation through Christ ye Redeemer and my 
body to the earth for a decent & christian burial at the discretion of my 
executors hereafter named hoping and trusting that at the general resurrection 
of the just to receive the same by ye almighty power of God and as touching 
such worldly estate God has blessed me with 1 give, bequeath and dispose of 
the same in the manner iS form following, viz. 

Fir.st, My will is that all my just debts and funeral charges be paid by 
one of my executors hereafter named, viz: by my son Samuel out of what I 
give him in this will. 

2. I give & bequeath to my well beloved wife Hannah the improvement 
ot one third part of all my real estate as ye law hath endowed her with during 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 131 

He was a member of the First Military Company of 
Taunton, Mass., on May 30, 1700. 

her life: I also give sd wife ye improvement of one cow during her s<aid life: 
I also give sd wife the sole improvement of all my household goods during sd 
natural life and all in lieu of dower out of my estate. 

3. I give and bequeath to my eldest son Thomas Gilbert and to his heirs 
and assigns forever all my purchase rights in ye old township of Taunton, viz: 
half a right which was my Hond. father's Mr. Thomas Gilbert and a half purchase 
right I bought of Thomas Danforth and one quarter of a right I bought of 
John Newland and one whole right in Taunton old township so called bought of 
Palmer Doughty with all lands & rights to land & commonage in sd propriety 
to fuller divisions and I also confirm and ratify all lands and titles to land I 
have given said son Thomas by deeds heretofore conveyed, together with three 
acres and half of land in sd Berkley (Taunton Proprietors measure) and is 
the premises he conveyed to me laying near a place called the Ridge of Trees 
on ye south east side of the highway leading from Israel Tisdales to pole 
plain, said son Thomas to have & to hold the same to him, his heirs and assigns 
forever and this with what I have heretofore given him by deeds of gifts is his 
whole portion out of my estate with what is given him hereafter in this will. 

4. I give and bequeath to my grandson Nathaniel Gilbert son of my son 
Nathaniel Gilbert late of sd Taunton, but now deceased, the whole of my tract 
of land in sd Taunton lying on ye east side of Taunton Great River between 
the ways leading from ye Ware Bridge towards James Coopers & from sd 
Coopers to the way leading to the dwelling of Seth Williams Esqr. and adjoyns 
to land where I have buried two of my daughters. I give him sd grandson all 
sd piece of land adjoyning together containing about nine acres more or less 
he to have and hold the same to him, his heirs & assigns forever (always 
excepting about three quarters of an acre of sd land in the fork of the said 
paths near to and adjoyning and where several of my children are buried and 
lay principally in ye most convenient place on the southwest side of the Hill next 
to sd way leading from sd bridge to said Coopers which sd three quarters of an 
acre is always to be for the publick use of a bur3nng place not only for myself 
and posterity but also for the Christian Neighborhood. I also give said grand- 
son Nathaniel his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece of cedar swamp 
in Taunton old township and in the great cedar swamp so called of about nine 
acres and lays to the east of a lott called Thrashers and runs from the upland 
to extent to the line called ye North Purchase Line which piece of swamp 
decended to me from my honoured father Thomas Gilbert. 

I also give sd grandson Nathaniel and his heirs and assigns forever a 
certain piece of land in said Berkley containing about seven acres and lays on 
a plain called Pole plain and adjoyns to land of Samuel Dean, James Harvey 
and the way leading over Pole plain and is all the land I have in sd plain 
adjoyning to ye way, said Nathaniel to have and hold the same provided he 
pay to his brother George Gilbert his heirs or assigns the sum of six pounds 



132 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

He died in Berkley, Mass., Aug. 17, 1765, She died 
there Jan. 28, 1772. 

when said grandson George shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years but 
if failure be made of said payment then said last mentioned lands to be and 
remain to sd George, his heirs & assigns forever. 

And also I give to my grandson George son of my said son Nathaniel the 
six pound as ordered to be paid by his brother Nathaniel but if said Nathaniel 
do not make payment ot sd six pounds to sd George when he arrives at twenty- 
one years of age, then sd George to enter and hold sd seven acres, his heirs 
& assigns forever and what is above given to said Nathaniel & George with 
what I gave their father by deeds and otherwise in his lifetime is the whole of 
what I intend to give the children and representatives of sd son Nathaniel 
deceased. 

5th. I give to my son Samuel Gilbert of said Berkley all and singular 
my mantion house, lands and premises laying in said Berkley including the 
lands I purchased of Thomas Gilbert Esqr. heretofore Malicai Halloways; and 
all the lands I purchased of sd Samuel by deed heretofore belonging to Bezalell 
Thrasher including the land 1 purchased of Nathaniel Townsend called twenty- 
two acres in the whole about one hundred & forty acres more or less with all 
the appurtenances on sd lands belonging as also eight acres of land heretofore 
granted me on ye late eight acre division laying near to my sd homestead on 
ye original rights of Gilbert and Wiat and all lays in Berkley aforesaid., he said 
Samuel to have and hold the same to him, his heirs & assigns forever as an 
absolute estate in fee forever. I also ratify & confirm to sd son his heirs and 
assigns all ye land I heretofore gave him by deed in ye town of Norton in said 
County. I also give said Samuel the desk he has in possission, I also give sd 
Samuel all my live stock of cattle, sheep and swine with all my live stock in- 
cluding my husbandary tools only, reserving ye cow 1 have in this will given 
my wife provided sd Samuel perform what 1 shall order him in this will here- 
after named. 

6 Item, I give and bequeath to ye children of my late daughter Hannah 
the wife of Ebenezer Smith deceased, over and above what I gave to said chil- 
drens lather and mother in their life time of my estate real & personal which 
was considerable. 1 now give Lemuel Smith, John Smith & Ebenezer Smith 
twelve pence each to be paid them by my son Samuel Gilbert after my decease 
and to Mary Smith daughter of my said daughter Hannah deceased, I give her 
four Spanish milled dollars to be paid her within twelve months after my 
decease by my son Samuel; to .Sibel wife of Doget one other of my said grand 
daughters 1 give her twelve pence to be paid her by my son Samuel she having 
heretofore received almost her portion of me. 

I give to my grand daughter Hannah daughter of my sd daughter Hannah 
four Spanish milled dollars to be paid her within two years after my decease 
by my son Samuel; and to Abigail one of my grandaughters and daughter of 
my late daughter Hannah Smith I give her four Spanish milled dollars to be 
paid her within four years after my decease by my said son Samuel. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 133 

His will is dated June 2, 1757, and bequeaths to Ijis 
daughter, Welthea, wife of Ebenezer Hathaway, Jr., 
/26, 13s, 4d. 

7th, I give and bequeath t o my daughter Mary Godfrey of Norton I give 
her all and singular the swamp and right to swamp in the Great Cedar Swamp 
so called, in sd County and in ye old township of Taunton called ye Burnt 
Ground in both divisions which descends and belongs to me on ye original 
right of dowry; and this is over and above what I have heretofore given her 
and furthermore I give her twenty-six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence 
lawful money to be paid her by my said son Samuel Gilbert within twelve 
months after my decease and the sd Mary to have & hold the same to her and 
her heirs and assigns forever. 

8, I give and bequeath to my daughter Welthea wife of Ebenezer Hatha- 
way Junr, over and above what she has already received of me, I further give 
her twenty-six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence lawful money to be 
paid her by my son Samuel within two years after my decease; and further I 
give all and singular the goods and chattels that I have above given to my wife 
as above that she shall die seized of and not in her lifetime disposed of to be 
equally divided between my two daughters Mary and Welthea. 

And also I give to sd son Thomas his heirs and assigns all and singular 
the lands due to me on former divisions in the old township of Taunton within 
said County not before disposed of in this will on the original right of sd 
Doughty, the swamp given to my daughters Mary only excepted and all other 
estate real and personal goods & chatties, rights and credits not otherwise 
disposed of in this will and of which I shall die seized of I give to my said son 
Samuel his heirs and assigns forever, and he to pay my just debts, funeral 
charges and to provide grave stones for my grave after my decease. 

And last of all I constitute and appoint my said son Thomas Gilbert & 
Samuel to be my ezecutors to this my said will & testament and do by these 
presents utterly revoke and make void all former wills and testaments by me 
heretofore made and all executors heretofore before this date named and do 
ordain this and no other to be my last will and testament. 

In witness whereof I the sd Nathaniel Gilbert have hereunto set my hand 
and seal the day and year first before mentioned. 

N. B. Ye words in the gift to Mary twenty-six pounds thirteen shillings 
were interlined before signing. 

Nathaniel Gilbert. (Seal). 
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared to be ye last will & 
testament of Capt. Nathaniel Gilbert in presence of us the subscribers. 

Ebener. Stevens 
Nathan Crane 
Kathrine Cobb 
James Williams 
Will probated Sept. 11, 1765. 
Recorded in Vol. 19, page 132, Bristol County Probate Records. 



134 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

CniLDIlEN. s V i i..^ 

1. Hannah^, born ill 1711. '^■^A.\mJy\ 

2. (Col.) Thomas, born in 1714. Resided at Taunton, 

Mass. A prominent Loyalist. 

3. Nathaaiel. Captain in French and Indian War; 

served under Col. Timothy^ Ruggles. Was 
killed in 1755. 

4. Samuel. :■ 

5. Mary. •^ - - ■ ^•' > 

6. Welthca^, born ; m. Ebenezer Hathaway. 

7. Abigail, born in 1726-7. 



BLAKE 

FIRST GENERATION. 

WILLTAM^ BLAKE (son of William Blake), was 
baptized July 10, 1594, in Pitminster, England. 

On September 23, 16 17, he was married at Pitminster 
to Mrs. Agnes Band. 

He probably came to America in 1635 or 1636 and 
settled at Dorchester, Mass. 

An agreement drawn by William Pynchon to make a 
settlement on the Connecticut River at Agawam, and dated 
May 14, 1636, was signed by William Blake and others. 

On January 2, 1637-8, a tract of land was granted 
to him at Dorchester. 

In March, 1637-8, he had a grant of land at the 
•' Neck," (now South Boston). 

He was Freeman March 14, 1639, and represented the 
town in various capacities, viz : Selectman in 1645, 1647 
and 165 1. "He was Recorder for y" Towne, Clerk of 
ye Writs for y^ County of Suffolk 1656." 

April 18, 17.^5, part? of Dighton and Taunton established as Berkley. 

Authorities -Kmery, S. H.: History ol'Tauiiton, (1893), page 353. 

Crane, John C, : "Col. Thomas Gilbert, the leader of New England 
Tories." Worcester (1893), 20 pages. 

Roberts, 0. A.: Elistory of the A. & H. Artillery Co. of Massachuaetts. 
Boston (1895), Vol. 1, page 156. 

Blake, Krancis E.: " Increase Blake, His Ancestors and Descendants." 
Boston (1898), pages 12 to 21, and 25 to 28. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 135 

He was also derk of the Training Band. He died 
October 25, 1663, aged 69. 

His will, dated Sept, 3, 1661, and proved Jan. 28. 
1664, bequeaths " Vnto y^ Towne of Dorchester /^20 to 
be bestowed for y® repairing of y*' Burying Place, so y^ swine 
and other vermine may not Anoy y« graves of y® saints." 

His widow, Agnes, died July 22, 1678. 

CHILiDKEN. 

1. William^, born in England; baptized Sept. 6, 1620; m. 

Hannah , 

2. James, born in 1623; baptized April 27, 1624. 

3. Edward. 

4. John, baptized Aug, 30, 1618. 

5. Anna, baptized Aug. 30, 1618. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

SERJ. WILLIAM^ BLAKE, (son of William^ and 
Agnes Blake), was born in England; baptized Sept. 6, 1620. 
He came to Dorchester, Mass., with his parents, where all of 
his children except the youngest were born. He removed to 
Milton, Mass., where he resided several years. He was a 
Representative to the General Court in 1680, 1683, 1690 
and 1697. He was Selectman several years, Sergeant of 
local militia, and a member of the committee to erect a 
new meeting house. On Dec. 4, 1682, he was granted 
permission by the Court to keep an ' ' Ordinary. '' 

1. William 1 Blake m. Agnes Band. 

2. James^ Blake m. Elizabeth^ Clap. 

3. Josephs Blake m. Mchitable^ Bird. 

4. Elizabeth* Blake m. William* Withington. 

5. Elizabeth^ Withington m. Ebenezer* Talbot. 

6. Ebenezer* Talbot m. Elizabeth Fuller. 

7. Joel^ Talbot m. Hannah Fuller. 

8. Henry Alvin" Talbot m. Susan A. C. Wild. 

9. Joel Francis^ Talbot m. Ella Elizabeth Hibbard. 

10. Jessica Hibbard^ Talbot m. William Ruggles* Tucker. 



136 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

He married (first), Anna — ^ , and on Nov. 22, 

1693, he married (second), Hannah Tolman, daughter of 
Thomas Tolman and widow of George Lyon. 

He died at Dorchester in 1703. His widow Hannah, 
died Aug. 4, 1729, aged 90. 

CIirLDHEN^— FIRST MASRIAOB. 

1. Samuel^, born May 14, 1650. 

2. Anne^, born March 6, 1652-3; m. Thomas^ Gilbert. 

3. Mary, born March 20, 1654-5. 

4. William, born Feb. 22, 1656-7. 

5. Nathaniel, born July 4, 1659. 

6. Edward, born April 13, 1662. 

7. Experience, born June 17, 1665. 

8. Agnes, born Sept. 29, 1667. 

9. Susan, born July 20, 1670; died May 4, 1676. 
10. Mehitable, born April 2, 1673. 



ROSSITER. 



HUGHi ROSSITER, settled in Dorchester, Mass., 
where he had the grant of a small lot as early as 1635. 
He removed to Taunton in 1637. 

" His name appears in the list of those of Cohannet, 
that have taken the oath of fidelity, but not on the military 
list of 1643." 

He sold his property in Taunton in 1675 to Joseph 
Willis, and either returned to England or died. 

CHILrDKEN. 

I, Jane^, ; m, March 23, 1639-40 Thomas'* Gil- 
bert. 



Reference: Emery, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, Ministry of Taunton (1853), 
p. 61. 

N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 36, p. 20; Vol. 37, p. 182. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 137 

BRADFORD. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

GOVERNOR WILLIAM! BRADFORD [son of Will- 
iam and Alice (Hanson) Bradford], was born in Austerfield, 
England, and was baptized in St. Helen's Church, Auster- 
field, on March 19, 1589. He married (first), in England, 
Dorothy May. 

He inherited a yoeman's freehold. 

He joined the Separatist Church, established in 1606, 
by William Brewster at Scrooby Manor, and by so doing 
incurred the ill feeling and hostility of his relatives and 
neighbors. The company emigrated to Holland and made 
an agreement with a Dutch captain to embark at Boston, 
England, but the skipper betrayed them to the authorities, 
and some were imprisoned, others released. 



St. Helen's Church, Austerfield, was built more than seven hundred years 
ago by John de Builli, who was one of William the Conqueror's most trusted 
followers. It consists of a nave and chancel divided by a Norman Arch. The 
windows (one of which contains some very ancient fragments of stained 
glass), are insertions of a later age. The old south doorway in the porch is a 
very curious and excellent specimen of the early Norman period. It is flanked 
on each side by two pillars supporting an arch with the zigzag molding typical 
of early Norman architecture, whilst in the tympanum is a rude figure of a 
dragon. 

In this Church William Bradford was baptized, and on the Parish Register 
is the entry of his baptism. The entry is theJast at the bottom of the page 
and reads as follows : 

" William, son of William Bradfourth, baptized the XlXth day of March 
anno dm 1589." '\ 

It was at this Church that he doubtless worshipped with his parents when 
a child, and it was whilst living in this village that he became acquainted with 
William Brewster, who lived only three miles away in the neighboring village 
of Scrooby. 

About 1895 an effort was made to restore this Church to its original 
architecture, and subscriptions were solicited from Governor Bradford's de- 
scendants in America. The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of 
New York made a liberal donation, and the restoration was completed. 

The old baptismal font of this Church was brought to America about 
i890, and placed in the New England Congregational Church, Chicago. 



138 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

A few months later Bradford escaped from prison, and 
early in 1608 joined his friends in Holland. 

Here he became a silk weaver. 

The following interesting article was recently published 
by the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, the sketch 
being selected and abridged from Goodwin's " Pilgrim 
Republic : " 

Conformists — Puritans— Separatists. 

The Protestant population of England during the latter half of the 
sixteenth century (1550-1600). had divided into three sects — the Conformists, 
the Puritans, and the Separatists or Brownists. The Conformists claimed for 
their church more than human authority and for its earthly head supreme power 
in the State as well as in the Church. 

The Puritans were in and of the established church but objected to many 
of the ceremonies, such as the ring- in marriage, the sign of the cross irt 
baptisms, showy vestments, receiving evil livers to the communion. They 
believed in reform within the church and opposed separation from the church 
as a deadly sin. Their ministers were oppressed and ruined by excessive fines. 
The sharp measures against the Puritan clergy called together in defense of 
liberty and law a great political party which during the refgn of James I. (1602- 
1625) formed the majority in the House of Commons. The settlers of Massa- 
chusetts Bay were Puritans — Non-Conformists who at the outset bad apparently 
no intention of separating from the Church of England. 

The Separatists, however, did not recognize the established church, and 
some of them, at least, doubted that the Church of England was scriptual or 
that its administrations were valid. They held that any convenient number of 
believers might fonn a church and make or unmake their officers as they saw 
fit; that over the spiritual affairs of the church no bishop, council, synod, 
court, or sovereign had authority. Other churches of the same faith might 
not, unasked, even offer advice. Their pastors bad no standing outside the 
parish. They were Separatists, Independents, or Congregationalists. The 
first independent church in England, however, was opened in London in 1616 
by the Rev. John Lothrop, afterwards the famous pioneer preacher of Barn- 
stable, Mass., who had been won from Puritanism to Separatism by I^obinson- 
in Holland. ; " 

The Separatists, though few in number, were cruelly persecuted under 
Mary (1553-1558). In 1567-1569, under Elizabeth, a London congregation 
was thrown into prison. The men and women died of the horrors of their 
prisons. They were allowed while in prison neither clothing or food, and 
subsisted upon donations that came through their jailers. The lew Puritans 
who were thrown into prison were mostly clergymen, whose prison life was 

Authority: The Pilgrim Republic, Boston, 1893. John A. Goodwin,, 
662 pages. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 139 

On Sept. 5, 1620, William Bradford and his wife left 
their only child John in England, and with one hundred 
Pilgrims, sailed for America in the historic ship " May- 
flower." The voyage was a long and tedious one. Before 
reaching their final destination they cast anchor in Province- 
town harbor, where, prior to the landing, the famous 
"Compact" was drawn up in the cabin of the "May- 
flower," the name of William Bradford appearing as the 
second signer. 

comparatively mild. The Separatists, however, suffered not only from the 
persecutions of the established church, but encountered also, says Bradford, 
^he sharp invective of the Puritans, who stirred up not only hostility at home, 
but even prejudiced the reformed clergy of other countries against the 
Separatist refugees. From 1660 to 1688 sixty thousand non-conformists and 
dissenters were cast into English prisons. 

In 1589, Robert Brown (born in 1549), educated at Cambridge, after- 
wards schoolmaster at Southwark, and lecturer at Islington, made a furious 
Separatist crusade, but the next year fled to Holland. Returning in 1586 he 
renewed his work, but soon re-entered the established church. Brown's 
efforts greatly embittered the controversy. 

For distributing Brown's books John Copping and Elias Thatcher were 
hanged after trial before Judge Fopham. The same year a preacher, William 
Dennis, was hanged. In 1593 three Cambridge scholars, John Perry, John 
Greenwood and Henry Barrow were hanged for teaching Separatism. Soon 
after, banishment, under penalty of death in case of return, was established as 
the punishment ol Separatism. The oppression of the Separatists was suc- 
cessfully continued until in 1603 upon the accession of James I. In the whole 
kingdom there appears to have been but one Separatist church, that at Gains- 
borough, in charge of a pastor, John Smyth. In 1605 the Gainsborough flock 
fled to Amsterdam, leaving behind a few scattered friends at Scrooby, twelve 
miles to the west of Gainsborough in the Hundred of Basset Lawe, in Notting- 
hamshire, England. 

Scrooby — Austerfield — Brewster — Bradford. 

At Scrooby lived William Brewster, afterwards the famous Elder Brewster 
•of Plymouth Colony, and at Austerfield, a neighboring Yorkshire village, re- 
sided William Bradford, the historian and future Governor of Plymouth Colony. 
William Brewster was born in 1569, attended Cambridge University, and was 
appointed in 1590 to keep the post station at Scrooby. Brewster became 
greatly interested in religious matters and was industrious in building up the 
Episcopal or Puritan congregations in the wide region around Scrooby. He 
was assisted by young William Bradford of Austerfield. In 1606 came a rude 
change. Persecution had become active at Scrooby. The Puritan reformers 



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THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 141 

On Dec. 7, 1620, while the "Mayflower" lay in Cape 
Cod harbor, and before a permanent place of settlement 
had been decided upon, Dorothy (May) Bradford, home- 
sick, weary, and mourning for her child, fell overboard, 
finding a watery grave. 

at Scrooby were repelled and became Separatists. A Separatist congregation 
was gathered from the remnants of the Gainsborough congregation. Brewster 
and Bradford joined the movement. Richard Chilton became the pastor. As 
junior pastor came John Robinson, a graduate of Corpus Christi College, 
Cambridge, formerly a clergyman in the established church near Norwich^a 
learned, liberal, cultivated man. In 1607 the determination was formed to 
escape further persecution by flight to Holland. A large ship was hired to t.ike 
them at Boston forty miles from Scrooby. Through the treachery of the 
officers of the ship, the fugitives were robbed of their effects, and Bradford, 
Brewster and others were imprisoned. 

In 1608 after severe trials, in various ways, the constant ones escaped to 
Holland under the care and guidance ot Clifton, Robinson and Brewster, and 
in August were reunited on the banks of the Zuyder Zee at Amsterdam in 
Holland. 

In Holland. 

At Amsterdam were two Separatist congregations; one banished from 
London in 1593 after the execution of its teacher, Greenwood; the others 
escaped from Gainsborough in 1605-1606. The Gainsborough society was at 
variance with its pastor John Smyth, and its division was affecting the elder 
and larger church. To escape these dissensions the new comers from Scrooby, 
n May, 1609, removed to Leyden. Clifton, now an old man, remained at 
Amsterdam. The Scrooby band at its removal to Leyden numbered one 
hundred persons. At Leyden the Scrooby Separatists lived peaceably and 
busily. Brewster, after several years, was employed at the University to teach 
English to the students. He wrote and published several text books. Sub- 
sequently he set up as a printer and published several theological works. In 
1619 the English Government complained that Brewster's books were " vended 
underhand" in England and asked that Brewster be delivered up for trial in 
England. The Dutch, anxious to strengthen their English alliance against 
Spain, promptly attempted to arrest Brewster. William Brewster, however, 
escaped to London, where he remained concealed until the sailing of the 
Mayflower, which he helped to fit out. At Leyden, under the leadership of 
their pastor, John Robinson, a sagacious, untiring and wise leader, the 
Separatist community moved quietly along. As years passed many changes 
came to the people. Births, marriages, deaths followed from year to year. 
As they increased in numbers more continuous labor was necessary to earn 
even a comfortable living. The young were becoming attached to the Dutch 
ways. They feared that soon they would become Dutch in tastes and habits, 
and that their descendants would be likely not only to lose the English 



142 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

December 21, 1620, they landed at Plymouth. 

When John Carver, the first Governor of Plymouth 
Colony, died, in April, 162 1, William Bradford was chosen 

language and character, but to allow the precious fire to die out on the 
Separatist altar. A removal seemed to be demanded. The resolution to settle 
in North America became fixed. 

Emigration to New England. 

Finally June 29, 1619, a patent was issued by the English Government of 
land near the northern limits of the Virginia territory, not to the Separatists 
who were non-residents, but to John Wincob. Early in 1620 one Thomas 
Weston, a merchant of London, came to Leyden olTering to furnish the funds 
required. He connected with himself some seventy English merchants who 
took stock at 10 pounds per share for promoting this emigration, on the basis 
of a division of the Colony's possessions and earnings at the end of seven 
years between the stockholders and the inhabitants. February 12, 1620, the 
Wincob patent was succeeded by one running to John Pierce, which conveyed, 
with self-governing powers, a tract of land to be selected by the planters 
near the mouth of the Hudson. 

A sixty ton pinnance the •'Speedwell," was purchased by the adventurers 
as the London merchants were called, and was fitted out in Holland. She was 
to take the Leyden people to Southampton. The "Mayflower," a hundred 
and sixty ton ship, had been selected to bring the English comrades from 
London to Southampton, whence the "Mayflower" and "Speedwell" were 
to sail for America. 

July 31, 1620, the Leyden people kept a farewell feast. John Robinson, 
their pastor, preached the farewell sermon. On the evening of the same day 
they lett Leyden by the canal for Delfthaven, some fourteen miles distant. 
Bradford says: "So they left that goodly and pleasant city which had been 
their resting place near twelve years; but they new they were Pilgrims and 
looked not much on those things but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their 
dearest country and quieted their spirits." 

The next morning, after a touching farewell (which Weir's famous paint- 
ing in the United States Capitol has reproduced), the Pilgrims sailed from 
Delfthaven in the "Speedwell" for Southampton, At Southampton the 
"Mayflower" had been receiving her stores and outfit for a week when the 
"Speedwell" arrived. The two vessels left Southampton August 15, 1620, 
but put back to Dartmouth about August 23rd, on account of the alleged 
leakage of the " Speedwell." The voyage was resumed about September 2d. 
When about three hundred miles off Land's End, the Captain of the "Speed- 
well " again reported his craft leaking. After consultation they put back to 
Plymouth. Here the "Speedwell" was returned to the Adventurers, and 
eighteen of her passengers went back in her. The remainder of the Pilgrims, 
one hundred and two in numbers, sailed from Plymouth for the New World in 
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as his successor, holding this office until January i, 1633, 
He was afterwards Governor from March 3, 1635, to Jan- 
uary, 1636; January 3, 1637, to January, 1638; March 5, 
1639, to June, 1644; June 4, 1645, to June, 1657, 
He was Governor's Assistant in 1634, 1635, 1637, 1638 
and 1644. 

On August 24, 1623, Governor Bradford married 
(second), in Plymouth, Mass., Alice (Carpenter) South- 
worth, the daughter of Alexander Carpenter and widow of 
Edward Southworth. She came to America in the " Ann" 
in 1623. 

Governor Bradford's name has come prominently be- 
fore us recently, through the restoration to the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, of his " History of Plirnoth 
Plantation." This historic volume covers the history of 
the Pilgrim movement in England, Holland and America 
from 1606 to 1646. It was first printed in the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society's Collections in 1856. In 1896 
a fac-simile of the original manuscript was made and 
published in London. In 1898 the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts printed the history, together with the pro- 
ceedings incident to the return of the manuscript. 

In 1897, through the efforts of Ambassador Bayard, 
Governor Wolcott and Senator Hoar, and the courtesy of 
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, 
the long lost manuscript history was delivered to Ambassa- 
dor Bayard, who brought it back to America. May 26, 1 897, 
appropriate exercises were held in the State House. Ad- 
dresses were made and the volume was placed in the State 
Library of Massachusetts. 

Senator Hoar's address * was in part as follows : 

It has long been well known that Governor Bradford wrote and left be- 
hind him a history of the settlement of Plymouth. Thomas Prince used it 
when he compiled his annals. Hubbard depended on it when he wrote the 

* Address of Senator George Frisbie Hoar before the joint session of 
the Massachusetts Legislature on the occasion of the presentation of the 
History by Ambassador Bayard. 



144 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

The value of this volume may be appreciated from 
the fact that it is enclosed in a glass case, which at night 
is kept in a safe especially constructed for the purpose. 

Governor Bradford's other writings are "A Letter 
Book,"t and " Mourt's Relation." :j: The latter is a daily 
journal covering the period November 20, 1620, to the re- 
election of Governor Carver April 2, 1621. 

" History of New Eng^land." Cotton Mather had read it, or a copy of a por- 
tion of it, when he wrote his " Magnalia." Governor Hntchinson had it when 
he published the second volume of his history in 1767. From that time it dis- 
appeared from the knowledge of everybody on this side of the water. All our 
historians speak of it as lost, and can only guess what had been its fate. 
Some persons suspected that it was destroyed when Governor Hutchinson's 
house was sacked in 1765, others that it was carried off by some officer or 
soldier when Boston was evacuated by the British army in 1776. 

In 1844 Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, afterward Bishop of 
Winchester, one of the brightest of men, published one of the dullest and 
stupidest of books. It is entitled "The History of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in America." It contained extracts from manuscripts which he said 
he had discovered in the library of the Bishop of London at Fulham. The 
book attracted no attention here until, about twelve years later, in 1855, John 
Wingate Thornton, whom many of us remember as an accomplished antiquary 
and a delightful gentleman, happened to pick up a copy of it while in Burn- 
ham's book store. He read the Bishop's quotations, and carried the book to 
his office, where he left it for his friend, Mr. Barry, who was then writing his 
"History of Massachusetts," with passages marked, and with a note which is 
not preserved, but which, according to his memory, suggested that the pas- 
sages must have come from Bradford's long-lost history. That is the claim 
for Mr. Thornton. On the other hand, it is claimed for Mr. Barry that there 
was nothing of that kind expressed in Mr. Thornton's note, but in reading the 
book, when he got it an hour or so later, the thought struck him for the first 
time that the clew had been found to the precious book which had been lost 
so long. He at once repaired to Charles Deane, then and ever since, down to 
his death, as President Eliot felicitously styled him, " the master of historical 
investigators in this country." Mr. Deane saw the importance of the dis- 
covery. He communicated at once with Joseph Hunter, an eminent English 
scholar. Hunter was high authority on all matters connected with the settle- 
ment of New England. He visited the palace of Fulham, and established 
beyond question the identity of the manuscript with Governor Bradford's 
history, an original letter of Governor Bradford having been sent over for 
comparison of handwriting. 

t Massachusetts Historical Society's Collection, 1st series, (1794), Vol. 3. 
j Young, Alexander, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. Boston (1841), 
pages 109 to 268. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 145 

Governor Bradford died in Plymouth, Mass., May 19, 
1657, aged 6'j years. His widow died in Plymouth April 
5, 1670, aged 80 years. 

Cotton Mather says of Governor Bradford : 

"■ He was a person for study as well as action, and hence 
notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his 
youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages. The 
Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as tlie 
English; the French tongue he could also manage; the Latin 
and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of 
all studied, because, he said, he would see with his own eyes 
the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty. He was 
well skilled in history, in antiquity, and in philosophy; and 
for theology, he became so versed in it that he was an irre- 
fragable disputant against the errors, especially those of 
Anabaptism, which with trouble he saw rising in his Colony; 
wherefore he wrought some significant things for the confuta- 
tion of those errors. But the crown of all was his holy, 
prayerful, watchful, and fruitful walk with God, wherein he 
was very exemplary." 

" Through '- long years he sowed the seed of liberality, 
and his is the glory, though in his old age he left others to 
tend the crop. He was the man of a thousand — yea, of 
many thousands — for the especial place which called him 

"How the manuscript got to Fulham nobody knows. Whether it was 
carried over by Governor Hutchinson in 1774; whether it was taken as spoil 
from the tower of the Old South Church in 1775; whether, with other manu- 
scripts, it was sent to Fulham at the time of the attempts of the Episcopal 
churches in America, just before the revolution, to establish an episcopate 
here — nobody knows. It would seem that Hutchinson would have sent it to 
the colonial office; that an officer would naturally have sent it to the war 
office. But we find it in the possession of the church and the church official 
having, until independence was declared, special jurisdiction over Episcopal 
interests in Massachusetts and Plymouth. This may seem to point to a 
transfer for some ecclesiastical purpose. 

"The bishop's chancellor conjectures that it was sent to Fulham because 
of the record annexed to it of the early births, marriages and deaths, such 
records being in England always in ecclesiastical custody. But this is merely 
conjecture." 

* Authority: Goodwin, John A.: The Pilgrim Republic (lS93),pp. 457-459. 



146 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

to its service. Wonderful indeed was it that a single ship- 
load of yeomen and artisans, cast up like waifs on the 
shore of an unknown wilderness, should have had not only 
a Carver, Brewster, and Fuller, but also such a greater trio 
as Winslow, Standish, and Bradford. 

" Since the earliest thought of emigration from Leyden, 
as in the hegira from England, Bradford has been among 
the foremost. In all the early periods and labors of the 
settlement, he stood side by side with Carver,*Standish and 
Winslow. In bodily labors he wrought beside the strongest; 
in action he was of the bravest; and in council he led the 
wisest. From that sad day when the handful of convales- 
cents fired their matchlocks over the grave of Carver, to 
that which, more than a third of a century later, saw his 
own departure, he had gone before the foremost, and stood 
without a peer. Many pages might well be filled with his 
eulogy, but the subject may be most fitly left with his own 
words upon Elder Brewster : ' I should say something of 
of his life, if to say a little were not worse than to be 
silent.'" 

ClIILiD— FIBST MARRIAGE. 

1. John*. 

CHILDREN— 8HCOND marriage. 

2. William^, born June 17, 1624; ni. Alice^ Richards. 

3. Mercy, born in 1627. 

4. Joseph, born in 1630. 

The Pilgrims left Delfthaven July 22, 1620, for Southampton, England. 
On Sept. 6, 1620, they set sail for America, with 102 passengers. One died 
at sea and one, Oceanus Hopkins, was born at sea. They arrived Nov. 11, 
1620, in Provincetown Harbor. 

On the. "Mayflower" were 102 passengers, one-half their number died 
the first winter, viz: 

Died, Survived. Total. 

Adults 36 23 59 

Seamen 2 2 

Servants 8 1 9 

Girls 1 10 11 

Boys 6 15 21 

51 51 102 




EDWARD WINSLOW. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 147 

Governor Bradford's grave on Burial Hill, Pl3mouth, 
is marked by a neat monument, inscribed : 

(North Side) 
UNDER THIS STONE 
REST THE ASHES OF 

WILLM BRADFORD 

A ZEALOUS PURITAN & 

SINCERE CHRISTIAN : 

GOV. OF PLY. COL. FROM 

APRIL 162I TO 1657 

(THE YEAR HE DIED 

AGED 6g) EXCEPT 5 YEARS 

WHICH HE DECLINED. 

QUA PATRES DIFFICILLIME 

ADEPTI SUNT NOLITE 

TURPITER RELINQUERE 



(South Side) 

WILLIAM 
BRADFORD 

OF AUSTERFIELD 

YORKSHIRE 

ENGLAND WAS THE 

SON OF WILLIAM 

AND ALICE BRADFORD 

HE WAS GOVERNOR OF 

PLYMOUTH COLONY 

FROM 

1 62 1 TO 1633 

1635 

1637 
1639 TO 1643 
1645 TO 1657 



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WILLIAM BRADFORD 

bap. Austerfield, Eng., 

March 19, 1589-90. Aug. 24, 1623 
d. Plymouth, Mass., 

May 19, 1657. 

William Bradford 
b. Plymouth, Mass. 

June 17, 1624. 
(I. Plymouth, Mass., 

Feb. 20, 1703-4. 

Samuel Bradford, 

b. Plymouth, Mass., 

1668. 
d. Duxbury, Mass., 

April 11, 1714. 

Hannah Bradford 
b. Duxbury, .Mass., 

Feb. 14, 1689-90. 
d. Berkeley, .Mass., 

Jan 2S, 1772. 

Wealthy Gilbert 
b. Taunton, Mass. 

About 1720. 



Welthe Hathaway 
b. Freetown Ivlass., 

Sept. !, 1750. 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 

Dec. 4, 1824. 

W^elthe Ruggles 

b. Clements, Nova Scotia, 

Sept. 25, 1780. 
d. East Cambridge, Mass., 

Dec. 30, 1854. 

Gilbert Ruggles Tucker 
b. Digby, Nova Scotia, 
Jan. 9, 1807. 
d. Philadelphia, Pa., 

Jan. 30, 1875. 

William S. S. Tucker 
b. Metaghan, Nova Scotia, 
October 31, 1839. 
Living. 



m. Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, 
Plymouth, Mass., b. About 1590. 

d. Plymouth, Mass., 

April 5 or 6, 1670. 



Alice Richards, 
b. 1627. 
d. Plymouth, Mass., 

Dec. 12, 1671. 



m. 
Duxbury, Mass., 
July, 1689. 


Hannah Kogers, 
b. Duxbury, Mass., 

Nov. 16, 1668. 


m. 

Duxbury, Mass., 

June 16, 1709. 


Nathaniel Gilbert, 
b. Taunton, Mass., 

July 12, 1683. 
d. Berkeley, Mass., 

Aug. 17, 1765. 


m. 

Taunton, Mass., 
1744. 


Ebenezer Hathaway, 

b. Taunton, Mass., 

July 11, 1713. 
d. Freetown, Mass., 

June 16, 1791. 


m. 
1771. 


Richard Ruggles, 
b. Rochester, Mass., 

March 4, 1743-4. 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 

Oct 21, 1832. 



m. 
1804. 



m. 

Shelburne, N. S. 
Aug. 20, 1821. 



m. 

Dayton, Ohio, 
May 4, 1865. 



Charles Tucker, 
b. Townsend. Mass., 

Oct. 14, 1782. 
d. Marshfield, Mass., 

1864. 

Evelina Christina Snyder, 
b. Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 
July 8, 1809. 
d. Chicago, 111., 

Sept. 2, 1892. 

Martha Ann Nesbitt. 
b. Xenia, Ohio, 

Jan. 27, 1843. 
Living. 



IDA NESBITT TUCKER, 

(Mrs. Seymour Morris.) 5342 Washington Avenue. 

authorities.— The Mayflower Descendant. Boston, Mass., v. 2, p. 119. 

Davis, W.T. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. Boston, Mass., 1899. pp. 26, 221. 

Drummond, J. II. The John Roj^rers Families in Plymouth and Vicinity, pp, 15, 19, 22. 

Austin, J. 0. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, N. Y. p. 167. 

Putnam, E. Monthly Historical Magazine. Salem, Mass., v. 6, pp. 192, 193, 197, 198. 

New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, Mass., v. 4, pp. 44. 46; v. 8, p. 286; v. 

52, p. 54, 167. 

Chute, W. E. The Chute Family in America. Salem, Mass., 1894. pp.179. 

Morris, Tyler Seymour. Ephraim and Pamela Morris, their Ancestors and Descendants. Chi- 
cago, 111., 1894. pp. 108, 109, 110. 



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THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 149 

SECOND GENERATION. 

MAJOR WILLIAMS BRADFORD [son of Governor 
William^ and Alice" (Carpenter) Bradford], was born in 
Plymouth, Mass., June 17, 1624. He married Alice^ Rich- 
ards [daughter of Thomas^ and Wealthian (Loring) Rich- 
ards of Weymouth]. She died December 22, 167 1, aged 
44 years. He was Governor's Assistant from 1658 to 
1681, and Treasurer of Plymouth Colony June 3, 1679 
to 1686, and 1689 to 1692. He was Deputy Governor 
of Plymouth Colony from June 6, 1682 to 1686, and 1689 
to 1692. He commanded the Plymouth forces in the Great 
Swamp fight December 19, 1675, where he was severely 
wounded. 

His will was dated June 29, 1703. He died February 
20, 1703-4. 

CHIT^DREN— FIHST markiagb. 

1. John^, born February 20, 1653. 

2. William, born March 11, 1655. 

3. Thomas, born 

4. Alice. 

5. Hannah. 

6. Mercy. 

7. Sa?nuel^, born Nov. 16, 1668; m. Hannah* Rogers. 

8. Melitiah. 

9. Mary. 

10. Sarah. 

CHILDREN— SECOND mabbiage. 

11. Joseph, born in 1674. 

CHILDREN -THIBD MAHBIAGB. 



12. 


Israel. 


13- 


Ephraim. 


14. 


David. 


15. 


Hezekiah. 



ISO THE TUCKER GEXEALOGY 

Major Bradford married (second), Mrs. Wiswell, and 
(third), Mrs. Mary (Atwood) Holmes, widow of John 
Holmes and daughter of John Atwood. 

The inscription on his tombstone reads : 

HERE LYES Y^ BODY 
OF HONOURABLE MAJOR 

WILLIAM BRADFORD 

WHO EXPIRED FEER Y^ 20TH 
I70I AGED 81 YEARS, 

He lived long but still was doing good, 
& in his country's service lost much blood. 
After a life well spent he's now at rest 
His very name and memory is blest. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

LIEUT. SAMUEL^ BRADFORD {Maj. William'', 
Gov. William'^), [son of Major William^ and Alice" (Rich- 
ards) Bradford], was born Nov. 16, 1668. In July, 1689, 
he married Hannah* Rogers {Jchn'^, John'^, Thomas'^) 
[daughter of John^ and Elizabeth^ (Pabodie) Rogers], 
She was born Nov. 16, 1668. 

Lieutenant Bradford lived about one-third of a mile 
northeast from the mouth of Island Creek. He had a 
grant of land adjoining his house lot in 171 3. His name 
appears on the records of Duxbury as early as 1700, where 
he was a juryman. He was a constable in 1701, selectman 
in 1702, and in 1710 was one of three men appointed to 
divide the common lands. He died April 11, 17 14. 

He is buried in the cemetery near the railroad station 
at South Duxbury, Mass. 

Samuel Bradford's will is dated Jan. 26, 1713-4, and in it he bequeaths : 
" Item. 1 give to my daughter, Hannah Gilbert, all that tract of land 
lying in Taunton, which I bought of Mr. William Hoskins, adjacent to ye land 
whereon my son-in-law Nathaniel Gilbert now dwelleth, with all the privileges 
and appurtenances thereunto belonging to her and her heirs forever." 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 151 

CHILDREN. 

1. Hannah^, born Feb. 14, 1689-90; m. in 1709 Na- 

thaniel* Gilbert of Taunton. 

2. Gershom, born Dec. 21, 1691. 

3. Perez, born Dec. 28, 1694. 

4. Elizabeth, born Dec. 15, i6g6. 

5. Jerusha, born March 10, 1699. 
5. Welthea, born May 15, 1702. 
7. Gamaliel, born May 18, 1704. 



RICHARDS, 

THOMAS! RICHARDS, born in England in 1590; 
settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. He was a freeman 
May 18, 1630. He removed to Weymouth, Mass., in 1636. 

He was a freeman March 3, 1640, selectman in 1643. 
October 8, 1633, he was chosen by the planters of Dor- 
chester as third man in a board of twelve persons to govern 
the town. In Weymouth he owned a mill. In 1648 he 
was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Co. of Massachusetts. He married Wealthian Loring. 

Dec. 17, 1650, he made a will, which was proved on 
Jan. 28, 1650-51. His estate was inventoried at ^1,300, 
17s, I id. His widow died in 1679 and her will, dated 
July 3, 1679, probated Nov. 4, 1679, mentioned her 
Bradford grandchildren. 

CHILDREN. 

I. James^, born in England. 



John, born in England. 

Samuel. 

Joseph. 

Benjamin. 

Mary. 

Ann. 

Altce^-, m. Major William^ Bradford. 

Hannah. 



THOMAS ROGERS 

d. Plymoulh, Mass., 

Bet. Jan. 11 and April 10, 1621, 



John Kogfrs 

d. Duxbury, Mass., 

1691-2. 


m. 
April 16, 1639. 


John Rogers 

b. Duxbury, Mass., 

About 1640. 
d. Harrington, Mass., 

June 28, 1732. 


m. 

Duxbury, Mass., 
Nov., 1666. 


Hannah Rogers, 
b. Duxbury, Mass., 

Nov. 16, 1668. 


m. 

Duxbury, Mass., 
July, 1689. 


Hannah Bradford 
b. Duxbury, Mass., 

Feb. 14, 1689-90. 
d. Berkeley, Mass., 

Jan 28, 1772. 


m. 

Duxbury, Mass., 
June 16, 1709. 


Wealthy Gilbkrt 
b. Taunton, Mass. 

About 1720. 


m. 

Taunton, Mass., 
1744. 


Welthe Hathaway 
b. Freetown. Mass., 

Sept. 1, 1750, 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 
Dec. 4, 1824. 


m. 
1771. 


Welthe Ruggles 

b. Clements, Nova Scotia, 

Sept. 25, 1780. 
d. East CambriQge, Mass., 

Dec. 30, 1854. 


m. 

1804. 


Gilbert Ruggles Tucker 
b. Digby, Nova Scotia, 

Jan. 9, 1807. 
d. Philadelphia, Pa., 

Jan. 30, 1875. 


m. 

Shelburne, N. S. 
Aug. 20, 1821. 


William S. S. Tucker 
b. Metaghan, Nova Scotia, 
October 31, 1839. 
Living. 


m. 

Dayton, Ohio, 
May 4, 1865. 



Ann Churchman, 



Elizabeth Pabodie, 
b. Duxbury, Mass., 

April 24, 1647. 
d. Before Oct. 21, 1679. 

Samuel Bradford, 
b. Plymouth, Mass., 

1668. 
d. Duxbury, Mass., 

April 11, 1714. 

Nathaniel Gilbert, 
b. Taunton, Mass., 

July 12, 1683. 
d. Berkeley, Mass., 

Aug. 17, 1765. 

Ebenf.zer Hathaway, 
b. Taunton, Mass., 

July 11, 1718. 
d. Freetown, Mass., 

June 16, 1791. 

Richard Ruggles, 

b. Rochester, Mass., 

March 4, 1 743-4. 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 

Oct. 21, 1832. 

Charles Tucker, 
b. Townsend. Mass., 

Oct. 14, 1782. 
d. Marshfield, Mass., 

1864. 

Evelina Christina Sn'Y'der, 
b. Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 
July 8, 1809. 
d. Chicago, III., 

Sept. 2, 1892. 

Martha Ann Nesbitt. 
b. Xenia, Ohio, 

Jan. 27, 1843. 
Living. 

IDA NESBITT TUCKER, 

(Mrs. Seymour Morris.) 5342 Washington Avenue. 

AUTHORITIES.— The Mayflower Descendant. Boston, Mass., v. 2, p. 119. 

Davis, W.T. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. Bo.ston, Mass., 1S99. pp. 26, 221. 
Drummond, J. H. The John Ro<2:ers Families in Plymotith and Vicinity, pp, 15, 19, 22. 
Austin, J. O. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, N. Y. p. 167. 
Putnam, E. Monthly Historical Magazine. Salem, Mass., v. 5, p. 6; v. 6, pp. 192, 193, ]°7, 198. 
New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, Mass., v. 8, p. 286; v. 52, p. 54. 
Chute, W. E. The Chute Family in America. Salem, Mass., 1894. pp.179. 
Morris, Tyler Seymour. E])hraim and Pamela Morris, their Ancestors and Descendants. Chi- 
cago, 111., 1894. pp. 108, 109, 110. 



TPTE TUCKER GENEALOGY 153 

ROGERS. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

THOMAS^- ROGERS came in the "Mayflower" in 
1620 with his son Joseph. Thomas Rogers was the 
eighteenth signer of the " Mayflower Compact." 

' ' Thomas Rogers dyed in the first sicknes, but his 
sone Joseph is still living, and is maried, and hath 6 
children. " 

"The rest of Thomas Rogers [children] came over & 
are maried, & have many children." 

He died in the spring of 1621. 

CHIXfDREN, 

1. Joseph^. 

2. John^, came over in 1631; ra. Ann^ Churchman. 



SECOND GENERATION. 



J0HN2 ROGERS {Thomas^), [son of Thomas^ Rog- 
ers], was born in England. Arrived in Plymouth in 1631, 
and settled in Duxbury. 

He was married at Weymouth on April 16, 1639, to 
Ann Churchman, daughter of Hugh Churchman. 

In August, 1643, he was a member of Captain Myles 
Standish's Company of Duxbury, Mass. 

He was rated on March 25, 1633, at nine shillings. 
He was proposed as a freeman Sept. 7, 1641, and admitted 
on March i, 1642. On April 6, 1640, Constant South- 
worth, Joseph Rogers and John Rogers, his brother, were 
granted fifty acres apiece of upland at North River. June 
5, 1644, John Rogers was appointed surveyor for Duxbur- 
row. August 20, 1644, Joseph and John Rogers were ap- 
pointed to lay out a highway. June 3, 1657, John Rogers 
and William Pabodie were appointed deputies from Dux- 
Authority: Bradford, Willi<am: History of Plimoth Plantation, p. 537, 



J 



154 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

bury to the General Court at Plymouth. October 2, 1660 
John Rogers was a member of the jury in the trial of a 
murder case, and frequently chosen as a jur3anan thereafter. 

July 2, 1667, the Court granted him one hundred acres 
of land 13'ing upon the Connecticut River. 

July 4, 1673, the Court granted him one hundred acres 
between Taunton and Titicut. He was surveyor of high- 
ways in Duxbury June i, 1669. 

His will is dated August 26, 1691, and proved Sept. 20, 
1692, and names his granddaughter, Hannah Bradford. 

CniJLl>SEX. 

1. John^ , born in March 1641; m. Elizabeth^ Pabodie. 

2. Joseph. 

3. Timothy. 

4. An;i. 

5. Mary. 

6. Abigail. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



JOHN' ROGERS {John'', Thomas'), [son of John^ 
and Ann (Churchman) Rogers, was born in Duxbury, 
Mass., March i, 1641. He was married on Nov. 16, 1666, 
to Elizabeth^ Pabodie {V/illtam^ , John''), [daughter of 
William* and Elizabeth- (Alden) Pabodie], who was born 
April 24, 1647. Hs was a merchant of Duxbury, Boston, 
Mass., and Barrington, R. I. 

He was a constable of "Duxburrow" June 5, 1670; 

served on the jury October 29, 1671; surveyor of highways 

June 3, 1674; deputy for Bristol in 1685, 1686, 1689 and 

1690. He married (second), Mrs. Marah (Browning) 

Newell. 



Reference: Peirce, E. W., Colonial Lists, p. 75. 

Drummond, J. H.: The John Rogers Families in Plymouth and Vicinity, 
page 15. 

The Genealogical Advertiser, Vol. 2, p. 28. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 155 

He died in Barrington, Mass., (now Rhode Island), 
|une 28, 1732, in his 92nd year. 

His estate inventoried £977, iSs, od. 

HERE LYETH 

INTERRED YE BODY OF 

JOHN ROGERS, ESQ., 

DIED 

JUNE YE 28TH, 1732, 

IN YE 92ND YEAR 

OF HIS AGE. 

CHIL,DBEN. 

1. Hannah^, born Nov. 16, 1668; m. Lieut. Samuel* 

Bradford. 

2. John, born Sept. 22, 1670, 

3. Ruth, born April 18, 1675. 

4. Sarah, born May 4, 1677. 
5. Elizabeth, born in 1679. 



CHURCHMAN. 

HUGH CHURCHMAN came to Lynn, Mass., in 1640, 
He died in 1644. 

His will was dated the fourth day of the fourth month 
of 1640, and was proved July 9, 1644. 

CH1L,D. 

I. Ann^ Churchman, born ia ; m. John^ Rogers, 



PABODIE, 

FIRST GENERATION. 



JOHN PABODIE (or Pabody), was born in England 
in 1590. He married Isabel, who survived him. He was 

Reference: " Essex Antiquarian, " Vol. 1, p. 177, for copy cf the will. 



156 Tire TUCKER GENEALOGY 

a planter of Duxbury, Mass., Feb. 7, 1636-7. 

He died at Bridgewater about 1667. 

His will was dated July 16, 1649, at Plymouth, Mass. 
and probated April 27, 1667, at Boston, 

tHILDBEK. 

1. Thomas. 

2. Frances, born in 1614. 

3. Wi/ltam", born in 1619-20; m. Elizabeth^ Alderr. 

4. Anne, born in . 



SECOND GENERATION. 

WILLIAMS PABODIE [son of John^ and Isabel 
Pabodie], was born in 1622 or 1623. He resided in Dux- 
bury, Mass., and removed to Little Compton, R. I. On 
Dec. 26, 1644, he was married to Elizabeth^ Alden 
[daughter of John' and Priscilla^ (Mullins) Alden], who 
was born in 1624. He was a member of the Duxbury 
Military Company in August, 1643,. He was a freeman 
June 5, 165 1 ; a deputy to the General Court in 1 654-1 663, 
1670-1677, 1679-1682; selectman in 1668, 1672 to 1675, 
1680 and 1684. 

He died at Little Compton Dec. 13, 1707, aged 87, 
She died there May 31, 17 17, aged 93. His will was 
proved Feb. 27, 1708. The inventory of his estate 
amounted to ^417, 14s. June 17, 1717, the " Bostort 
News Letter " published this notice of her death : 

"Little Compton, 31st of May, This morning died 
there, Mrs. Elizabeth Pabody, late wife of Mr. William 
Pabody in the 93rd year of her age. She was the daughter 
of John Alden, Esq., and Priscilla, his wife, daughter of 
Mr. Wm. Mullins. This John Alden and Priscilla Mul- 
lins were married in Plymouth, in New England, where 
their daughter Elizabeth, was born. She was exemplary^ 

Reference: N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 4, p 256; Vol. 52, p. .S4, 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



157 



virtuous and pious, and her memory is blessed. Her grand- 
daughter Bradford is a grandmother." 

A granite slab marks her grave with the inscription : 

" HERE LVETH 

THE BODY OF 

ELIZABETH PABODIE 

WHO DIED MAY YE 31, 1717, 

IN THE NINETY-FOURTH YEAR 



I 
2 

3 

4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 

1 1 

12 



/' , a 5- •--<"•■>--*- vi^-*-''^' 



OF HER AGE.' 

John^, born Oct. 4, 1645. 

Elizabeth^ , born April 24, 1647; m. Joha^ Rogers, 

Mary, born Aug. 7, 1648. 

Mercy, born Jan. 2, 1649. -; . 

Martha, born Feb. 25, 1650. 

Priscilla, born Jau. 15, 1653. 

Sarah, born Aug. 7, 1656. 

Ruth, born June 27, 1658, 

Rebecca, born Oct. 16, 1660. 

Hannah, born Oct. 15, 1662. 

William, born Nov. 24, 1664. 

Lydia, born April 3, 1667. 



ALDEN. 

JOHN ALDEN, was born in 1599. 

"John Alden v/as hired for a cooper at South 
Hampton, wher the ship victuled, and being a hopfuU 
young man, was much desired, but left to his own liking 
to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed and 
maryed here," 

He was the seventh signer of the " Mayflower Com- 
pact " in Provincetown Harbor. 

In 162 1 he married Priscilla Mullins, daughter of 
William and Alice Mullins, all of whom came to America 
on the " Mayflower." 



158 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

He took an active part in the affairs of Plymouth 
Colony, He was one of the founders of the town of Dux- 
bury, Mass. He was a member under arms of Captain 
Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643; Assistant to 
each Governor of the Colony from 1633 to i64[, and 
from 1650 to 1686; Representative to the General Court 
from 1 64 1 to 1649; member of the Council of War from 
1653 to 1660 and 1675 to 1676, and Treasurer of Plymouth 
Colony from June 3, 1656 to 1659. 

John Alden lived at Eagle Tree Pond, about two miles 
north of Captain's Hill, Duxbury. 

"John Alden marled with Priscila, M^". Mollines his 
doughter, and had issue by her as is before related." 

He was the last surviving signer of the " Compact." 

He died in Duxbury, Mass., Sept. 12, 1687. 



John Alden was the ancestor of William Cullen Bryant 
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, viz : . ■ 

1. John Alden m. Priscilla MuUins. 

2. Zachariah Alden m. Mary . 

3. Anna Alden m. Josiah Snell. 

4. Dea Zachariah Snell m. Abigail Hayward. 

5. Ebenezer Snell m. Sarah Packard. 

6. Sarah Snell m. Peter Bryant. 

7. William Cullen Bryant m. Frances Fairchild. 



1. John Alden m. Priscilla Mullins. 

2. Elizabeth Alden m. William Pabodie. 

3. Ruth Pabodie m. Benjamin Bartlett. 

4. Priscilla Bartlett m. John Sampson. 

5. Susanna Sampson m. Dea. Peleg Wadsworth. 

6. General Pele<^ Wadsworth m. . 

7. Ziipha Wadsworth m. Stephen Longfellow. 

8. Henry Wadsworth* Longfellow, born in Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807. 

V .Authority: Morton, Nathaniel, New England Memorial, Cambridge, 

England, 1669, p. 37. 

Bradford, William. History of Plimoth Plantation, pp. 452 and 537. 

Baird, . History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, Vol. 

1, p. 158. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 159 

CHILDREN. 

1. Elizabethy born in 1623-4; m. William^ Pabodie. 

2. John, born in 1626. 

3. Joseph, born in 1627; m. Mary Simmons. 

4. Sarah, born in 1629. 

5. Jonathan, born in 1632-3. 

6. Ruth, born in 1634-5. 

7. Rebecca, born in 1637, 

8. Priscilla. 

9. Zachariah, born in 1641. 

10. Mary, born in 1643. 

11. David, born in 1646. 



MULLINS. 

WILLIAM MULLINS (or Molines), with his wife 
Alice, son and daughter, came in the " Mayflower" in \6io. 
His name appears as the tenth signer of the " Mayflower 
Compact.'' 

It is supposed that the Mohnes family' were Walloons 
or French Huguenots. 

' ' William Molines and his daughter Priscilla, (afterwards 
wife of John Alden), and Philip De la'Noye and others re- 
mained in Leyden. That is when the French Huguenots 
went to Guiana. After this they went to England and 
joined the Pilgrims there. They embarked in the " Speed- 
well," but in the readjustment of the passengers after the 
ship "Speedwell" gave out, we find them in the "May- 
flower.'' 

William Mullins and his wife died in Plymouth, Mass., 
the first winter — 1 620-1. 

When William Mullins died he left a will which was 
proved in Dorking County, Surrey, England. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Joseph. 

2. Priscilla, m. John Alden. 

3. William. 



JOHN ALDEN 


m. 


b. About 1599. 


Plymouth, Mass 


d. Duxbury, Mass., 


Before 1624. 


Sept. 22, 1687. 




Elizabkth Alden 


m. 


b. Plymouth, Mass. 


Duxbury, Mass., 


d. Little Compton, R. I., 


Dec. 26, 1644. 


May 31, 1717. 




Elizabeth Pabodie 


m. 


b. Duxburv, Mass., 


Duxbury, Mass., 


April 24, 1647. 


Nov., 1666. 


d. Before 1679. 




Hannah Rogers, 


m. 


b. Duxbury, Mass., 


Duxbury, Mass., 


Nov. 16, 1668. 


July, 1689. 


Hannah Bradford 


m. 


b. Duxburv, Mass., 


Duxbury, Mass., 


Feb. 14, 1689-90. 


June 16, 1709. 


d. Berkeley, Mass., 




Jan 28, 1772. 




Wealthy Gilbert 


m. 


b. Taunton, Mass. 


Taunton, Mass., 


About 1720. 


1744. 


Welthe Hathaway 


m. 


b. Freetown Mass., 


1771. 



Sept. 1, 1750. 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 
Dec. 4, 1824. 

Welthe Ruggles 

b. Clements, Nova Scotia, 

Sept. 25, 1780. 
d. East Cambridge, Mass., 

Dec. 30, 1854. 

Gilbert Ruggles Tucker 
b. Digby, Nova Scotia, 

Jan. 9, 1807. 
d. Philadelphia, Pa., 

Jan. 30, 1875. 

William S. S. Tucker 
b. Mctaghan, Nova Scotia, 
October 31, 1839. 
Living. 



m. 

1804. 



m. 



Shelburne, N. S. 
Aug. 20, 1821. 



m. 

Dayton, Ohio, 
May 4, 1865. 



PRISCILLA MULLINS, 

d. After 1650. 



William Pabodie, 
b. About 1620. 
d. Lttle Compton, R. L, 

Dec. 13, 1707. 

John Rogers, 
b. Duxbury, Mass., 

About 1640. 
d. Barrington, Mass., 

June 28, 1732. 

Samuel Bradford , 
b. Plymouth, Mass., 

1668. 
d. Duxbury, Mass., 

April 11, 1714. 

Nathaniel Gilbert, 
b. Taunton, Mass., 

July 12, 1683. 
d. Berkeley, Mass., 

Aug. 17, 1765. 

Ebenezer Hathaway, 
b. Taunton, Mass., 

July 11, 1718. 
d. Freetown, Mass., 

June 16, 1791. 

RiCH.\RD Ruggles, 
b. Rochester, Mass., 

March 4, 1743-4. 
d. Annapolis Co., N. S., 

Oct 21, 1832. 

Charles Tucker, 
b. Townsend. Mass., 

Oct. 14, 1782. 
d, Marshfield, Mass., 

1864. 

Evelina Christina Snyder, 
b. Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 
July 8, 1809. 
d. Chicago, 111., 

Sept. 2, 1892. 

Martha Ann Nesbitt. 
b. Xenia, Ohio, 

Jan. 27, 1843. 
Living. 



WILLIAM RUGGLES TUCKER 



authorities.— The Mayflower Descendant. Boston, Mass., v. 2, p. 114. 

New Enj(lan;l Historical and (ienealog-ical Register. Boston, Mass. , v. 8. p. 286; v. 51, pp. 428,429, 

431; V. 52, pp. 54, 55; v. 42, pp 62, 6.^, 
Putnam, R. Monthly Historical Magazine. Salem, Mass., v. 5, p. 6; v. 6, pp. 192, 197, 1°S; v. 7, 

p. 193. 
Druinmond, J. H. The John Rog:ers Families in Plymouth and Vicinity, p. 22. 
Au.stin, .1. 0. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, N. Y., 18S7. p. 167. 
Chute, W. E. The Chute Family in America. Salem, Mass., 1894. pp. 179. 
Morris, T. S. Ephraim and Pamela Morris, their Ancestors and Descendants. Chicago, 111., 

1894. pp. 108, 1U9, 110. 



JOHN ALDEN 

b. About 1599. 
d. Duxbury, Mass., 

Sept. 22, 1687. 

JoSKPH AlDEN 

b. Plymouth, Mass., 

After .May 22, 1627. 
d. Bridgewater, Mass., 

Feb. 8, 1697. 

Isaac Alden 

b. Bridge water, Mass. 

Mercy Alden 



m. 

Plymouth, Mass., 

Before 1624. 



m. 

1657. 



m. 
Dec. 2, 1685. 

m. 



b. E. Bridgewater, Mass., Bridgewater, Mass., 



Oct. 30, 1696. 

Simeon Pack.^rd 

b. Bridgewater, Mass., 

March 30, 1736. 
d. Bridgewater, Mass. 
Oct. 21, 1815. 

Zenas Packard 

b. Bridgewater, Mass., 

May 22, 1771. 
d. Bridgewater, Mass., 

April 20, 1854. 

Charlotte Packard 
b. Bridgewater, Mass., 
Oct 2, 1796. 
d. N. Bridgewater, Mass. 

Susan Ann Coburn Wild 



1725. 



m. 

Bridgewater, Mass., 
July 6, 1761. 



m. 

Braintree, Mass., 
Oct. 28, 1793. 



m. 

Bridgewater, Mass. 
Nov. 6, 1817. 



m. 



PRISCILLA MULLINS, 

d. After 1650. 



Mary Simmons. 



Mehitable Allen, 

b. Bridgewater, Mass., 

1665. 

Zaccheus Packard, 

b. Bridgewater, Mi?s., 

Sept. 4, 1693. 
d, 1775. 

Mary Perkins, 

b. Ipswich, Mass., 

Feb. 16, 1739. 
d. Bridgewater, M.ass., 

Oct. 22, 1820. 

Deborah Thayer, 
b. Braintree, Mass., 

May 25, 1772. 
d. Bridgewater, Mass., 

Oct. 1, 1854. 

Joseph Wild, 

b. Braintree, Mass., 

April 6, 1794. 
d. N. Bridgewater. Mass., 
April 6, 1870. 

Henry Alvin Talbot, 



b. Bridgewater, Mass., N. Bridgewater, Mass., b. Medfield, Mass., 

March 2, 1827. Jan. 13, 1847. Nov. 25, 1822. 

Living. d. S. Dedham, Mass., 

Sept. 18, 1866. 



Joel Francis Talbot 
b. Dedham, Mass. 

Oct. 19, 1850. 
Living. 



m. Ella Elizabeth Hibbard, 

Lockport, N. Y., b. Lockport, N. Y., 

Nov. 18, 1874. Jan. 29, 1854. 

Living. 



JESSICA HIBBARD TALBOT, 

(Mrs. William Ruogles Tucker) . 



authorities.— The Mayflower Descendant. Boston, Mass., v. 3, p. 114, vol, 3. p. 9. 

New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, Mass , v. 50, p. 39; v. 51, p. 429: 

V. 52, pp. 362, 363. 
Alden, E. Memorial of the Descendants of Hon. John Alden. Randolph, Mass., 18h7, p. 8. 
Kingman, B. History of North Bridgewater, Mass. Boston, Mass., 1866. pp. 586, 587, 591, 

598, 682, 683. 
Thayer, B. Thayer Genealogy. Oswego, N. Y., 1874. p. 596. 
Vinton, J. A. Vinton Memorial. Boston, Mass., 1858. p. 291. 
Hibbard, A. G. Genealogy of the Hibbard Family. Hartford, Conn., p. 234. 




O man is born 
into this world 
whose work is 
not born with 
him : there is always work, 
and tools to work withal, 
for those wlio will. 



JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 



THE LINEAL ANCESTORS 
OF 

EVELINA CHRISTINA (SNYDER) TUCKER 



SNYDER. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

DEACON HENDRICKi SNYDER was (probably) 
born in Germany. He was living in Tappan, Orange 
County (now Rockland County), New York, as early as 
1727. 

October 13, 1727, Hendrick Snyder and Johannes 
Snyder were received by letter into the Tappan Dutch 
Reformed Church. 

In 1738 Haverstraw had 654 inhabitants; in 1790 it had 4,826, 

On March 18, 1791, Clarkstown was separated from Haverstraw. 

In 1775 Haverstraw Precinct embraced the present towns of Ramapo, 
Clarkstown, Stoney Point and Haverstraw. 

The First Reformed Protestant Church of New Hempstead was organized 
in 1749, and in 1752 an edifice was erected in Clarkstown, New York. 
This building stood until 1825. 

By an act of the Legislature in 1840 the corporate name was changed to 
the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Clarkstown. 

In 1750 Orange County embraced all the territory now known as Rock- 
land and Orange counties. The country was very thinly settled and the 
inhabitants few in number. The only church near the place was the Reformed 
Dutch Church at Tappan, and here the church-going people attended. Some 
walked, some traveled on horse back and others went in wagons. They usually 
took their lunches, and after the morning service the people from a distance 
sat down upon the green lawn together, near the Church, and were refreshed. 
Soon after the congregation would again assemble in the church, and hold 
an afternoon service, after which they would return home. Dominie Mazelius 
was the stated pastor at. Tappan. 

On the 17th of June, 1750, the people from the community of Clarks- 
town, met with the Tappan people and organized a church in this place 
known as the New Hempstead Reformed Church, and the two churches were 
supplied by one minister, Rev. D. Mazelius being an aged man and feeble and 
incompetent to do the work, and the two congregations united and called a 
young minister. Rev. Samuel Verbryck, to take charge and oversight of the 
two congregations. Two-thirds of his time was devoted to the Tappan Church 
and one-third to New Hempstead. The salary of the new pastor was raised 
in a like ratio — two-thirds by Tappan and one-third by New Hempstead. This 
was continued until 1784, when, upon the death of Mr. Verbryck, the Rev. 
Nicholas Lansing was called to succeed him, and for forty-six years he was 
the faithful pastor of these two bodies of people. 

In 1830 New Hempstead withdrew and separated from the Tappan 
Church and became known as the Clarkstown Church, and called for its 
pastor -the Rev. Christopher Hunt. 



166 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

About 1729 he married Catherine Hoffman (daughter 
of Harmanus and Geertruyd (Smith) Hoffman). She died 
between 1749 and 175 i, and he married (second) December 
22, 1751, Mrs. Barbara (Albrecht) Houser, widow of 
Johannes Houser. 

Hendrick Snyder was a prominent member of the 
Tappan and Clarkstown churches, being a deacon in the 
former till the latter was built in 175 i, where he occupied 
a similar position. 

April 9, 1769, Cornelius Blauvelt, minister of the 
Dutch Reformed Church in Hackingsack, recorded the 
admission of Hendrick Snyder of Orange County to the 
holy communion of said church. 



Prior to the outbreak of the Revolution the following test of the Genera 
Association was subscribed to by Hendrick Snyder and others : 

" Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America 
depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants in a vigorous prosecu- 
tion of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity 
of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend the dissension of the 
powers of the government, we, the freemen, freeholders and inhabitants 
of Clarkstown, being greatly alarmed at the avowed designs of the Ministry 
to raise a revenue in America, and shocked by the bloody scenes now acting in 
Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most solemn manner, resolve never to become 
slaves; and do associate under all the ties of religion, honor and love to our 
country to adopt and endeavor to carry into execution whatever measures may 
be recommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our 
Provincial Convention, for the purpose of preserving our Constitution and 
opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts ot the 
British Parliament until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America on 
constitutional principles (which we most ardently desire), can be obtained; 
and that we will in all things follow the advice of our general committee 
respecting the purposes aforesaid, the preservation of peace and good order, 
and the safety of individuals and private property. 

(Signed) Hendrick Snyder, 

Hendrick Snyder 
William Snyder 
Peter Snyder 
AiiRAHAM Snyder 
Harmanus Snyder 
Reynan Gerow 
And many others. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 167 

Hendrick Snyder served as a private under Colonel 
Ann Hawk Hay in the Second Regiment of the Orange 
County, New York, militia during the Revolution, In re- 
sponse to an appeal made by the Legislature on May 30, 
1780, Hendrick Snyder signed the subscription roll and 
loaned money to the State to aid in carrying on the 
Revolutionary War. 

CHILDREN— FIRST MABBIAGE. 

1. Gertrude, born January 18, 1731. 

2. Johannis, born March 22, 1733. 

3. Christina, born August 23, 1734. 

4. Peter, born Nov. 20, 1736. 

5. Margrietye, born March 29, 1739. 

6. Hendrick, born April 16, 1741. 

7. Harinanus, born November 14, 1743. 

8. Peter, born November 13, 1746. 

g. William, born Nov. 9, 1749; m. Ann* Stringham. 

CHILiDHEN'— SBCOND marriagb. 

10. Abraham, born April 17, 1753. 

11. Catrina, born June 29, 1756. 

Clarkstown, 5th June, 1782. 
Dear William 

Your letter we have rec<3 with General satisfaction — am sorry to in- 
form you that your father Departed this life on the 3 inst after Being a long 
time bed fast: he bore his illness with much fortitude, & keep his senses to the 
last. He seemed to be sensible that his tima was not to be Long here & by 
an appearance was Very Pennitent and long'd for the last hour. 

The few linds you sent seem'd to rejoice Him, but Hendricks negieact 
of him when he had an Opportunity, asking about him, knowing he was ap- 
proaching the end of life, seem'd to Draw tears from His Eyes. Hope this will 
find you & your family Reynard & his family well, as the remainder of us is at 
Present. Now my Dear Children I must take my Leave of you, in the main- 
time I Pray God & his Infinit merces Protect you & grant that you may have 
him befor your Eyes in your out goings & In Comings as This may be the last 
time I may have an opportunity to communicat my sentiments to you shall 
always be happy of hereing from you by Every opportunity as its not Likely I 
may have the happiness of seeing you whoever God in his Good wisdom may 
Call us Together Yet who is Infinitely able to Do all things, when he Pleases. 
Am Der Children your faithful & Loving Mother, 

Barbra Snyder. 
Mr. William Snyder. 



'68 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



Orange County, New York, and the vicinity of Hen- 
drick Snyder's home, was the scene of one of the most 
important events of the Revolutionary War, viz : The 
treason of Benedict Arnold, 

On the 20th of September, 1780, Major Andre sailed up 
the Hudson River on the British sloop " Vulture," and was 
on the evening of the 21st taken ashore about four miles 
south of Stony Point to Joshua Smith's house, where Major 
Andre's interview with Benedict Arnold took place. 

Tappan, the scene of Major Andre's trial and execu- 
tion, was less than five miles south of Hendrick Snyder's 
home. 

The Will of Hendrick Snyder. 

In the name of God Amen, I, Hendrick Snyder, of Haverstraw precinct 
in the County of Orange, and State of New York, Yeoman, being intirm and 
weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory do this first day of 
April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one 
make and ordain this my Will and Testament in manner and form following. 
Imprimis, I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it 
me and my body to the dust to be buried in a decent manner in hope of a 
joyful resurrection to eternal life, through the merits of Jesus Christ our 
Lord. And, as to my worldly estate with which it hath pleased God to bless 
me I dispose thereof as follows : 

First. I will that all my just debts and funeral expenses be fully paid 
and discharged. 

Item. I do give and bequeath unto Barbara my loving wife the use and 
enjoyment of my Estate real and personal for and during her natural life or so 
long as she remains my widow she making no spoil waste or destruction 
thereupon. .And from and after her decease or marriage again, I do give 
devise and bequeath all my lands tenements and premises that I shall die 
seized and possessed of unto Hendrick, Peter, William and .Abraham my sons 
to be equally divided amongst them, share and share alike as they and my 
executors hereinafter named shall agree to divide the same as tenants in com- 
mon, and not as joint tenants, and to their heirs and assigns forever. 

Provided nevertheless that if my sons Hendrick and William be not 
established and settled inhabitants of this State or some other of the United 
States, then their and each of their parts of my said estate hereby given, 
devised and bequeathed unto them shall be equally divided amongst my socs 
Peter, Harmanus and Abraham share and share alike as they and my said 
executors shall agree to divide the same, as tenants in common and not as 
joint tenants, and to their heirs and assigns forever. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 189 

He died June 3, 1782, in Clarkstown, Rockland County, 
N. Y. His will is dated March 3, 1781, and proved May 
!4, 1788. His widow, Barbara, survived him. 

Item, I do give and bequeath unto the before mentioned Hendrick my 
Eldest Son, as bis foregist or birthright, a debt due to me from him, of fifteen 
pounds that I paid to Thomas Wilson on his account. 

Item- I do give and bequeath unto Barbara my loving wife all the 
household goods that she brought to me at the time of our marriage in the 
same condition in which they shall respectfully be at the time of my decease 
and one tea-kettle and one tea-pot. Also the sum of thirty pounds current 
money of this State in specie, or the full value thereof in other current money 
of the said State to be disposed of at her own pleasure to be paid out of my 
personal estate by my executors. 

Item. I do give and bequeath unto Harmanus my son the sum of 
twenty pounds, a debt due to me that I paid for him to Paulus Rutain for 
which sum I have no obligation from him the said Harmanus. 

Item. I do give and bequeath unto my daughter Ghretie the widow of 
Peter Van Oden and Catherine the wife of Rynier Gerow the rest, remainder, 
and residue, of my personal estate that is not before disposed of to be equally 
divided between them, share and share alike, or otherwise to be sold at public 
sale and the monies arising from such sale to be equally divided between 
them, as before mentioned, and tendered to them their heirs and assigns 
forever. 

I do also ordain nominate, constitute and appoint my trusty, and well 
beloved friends and neighbors John Ryder Yeoman and David Pye Clothier to 
be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament, revoking, and making 
void all other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made, and allowing this 
to be my last Will and Testament. 

In Witness Whereof, I the said Hendrick Snyder have hereunto set my 

hand and affixed my seal the thirty -first day of March in the year of our Lord 

Christ, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one. 

his 
Hendrick + Snyder, [l. s.] 
mark. 

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Hendrick Snyder as 
and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us whose names are 
hereunto subscribed by our hands, as witness hereunto. 

John Farrand 
Theunis Tiiew 
Abraham Thew. 

Oath of subscribing witnesses was taken before James Everett, Surro- 
gate of the County of Orange, N. Y., May 14, 1788, and Letters Testamentary 
granted same day. 

Will dated May 31, 1781. Proved May 14, 1783. Recorded sam- day 
in Liber No. 1, of Transcribed Records from Orange Co., N. Y., in Rockland 
County, N. Y., page 3. 



170 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



SECOND GENERATION. 



WILLIAM^ SNYDER, son of Hendricks and Catrina^ 
(Hoffman) Snyder, was born in Clarkstown, Orange County, 
N. Y. , Nov. 9, 1749; baptized February 21, 1750. 

He married Ann* Stringham (y«?;2^^^, Saiinicl'^, Petcr^ ,) 
[a daughter of Col. James^ and Deborah* (Sackett) String- 
ham] who was born in 1753. She was a woman of great 
strength of character, of very commanding presence, and 
a woman without fear. 

Prior to the Revolution William Snyder submitted to 
the test of the General Association, but between 1779 and 
1 78 I his property in New York State was confiscated and 
sold. 

He was a Loyalist, and removed to Shelburne, N. S. , 
during the Revolutionary War. He built the first church 
in Shelburne, N. S., which was destroyed by fire about 
1880, and since rebuilt. 

He was a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & 
A. M., in Shelburne, N. S., on Nov. 12, 1799. 

He died in Shelburne, N. S., July i, 1806, at 5:30 
p. M., aged 55 years, 7 months and 22 days. She died in 
Shelburne, N. S., Aug. 22, 1840, aged 87 years. 

CITILDREIV. 

1. William Strin^ham'^ , born Sept. 3, 1779; m. Christina 

Rutus* Johnstone. 

2. Henry. 

3. Catherine, born ; m. Colonel Stringham. 

AUTHORITIES.— New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. Albany, 
1898; p. 160. 
Tucker, G. J., New York Marriages; Albany, 1860; p. 377. 

Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in Secretary of State's olTice, Albany, 
1866; p. 776. 

New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Supplement, Albany, 
1901; p. 195 and 258. 

Records of the Reformed Dutch Church at Tappan, N. Y. 

Records of the Clarkstown Reformed Church: pp. 1, 2, 25, 36, 48, 64, 
65, 99 and 153. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 171 



THIRD GENERATION. 



WILLIAM STRINGHAM^ SNYDER, {William^ 
Hcndrick^)^ [son of William^ and Ann^ (Stringham) 
Snyder], was born in Clarkstovvn, Orange County, N. Y., 
Sept. 3, 1779. He was married in Shelburne, N. S. , on 
Thursday evening, Feb. 23, 1803, by Dr. B. Rowland, to 
Christina Rutus* Johnstone, {John}, Andrew'^, John'^), 
[daughter of John^ and Isabella* (Hooper) Johnstone], who 
was born in Spotswood, New Jersey, May 20, 1780. She 
was christened by Rev. Abraham Beach, and died in 1864 
at Montaghan, N. S. He died at noon on April 30, 181 1, 
at Shelburne, N. S. , aged 31 years 8 months and 22 days. 

She married (second) James McCarthy, who died in 
Montaghan, N. S., in 1867. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Ann Isabella*, born Sept. 27, 1805; m. Joshua Saow. 

2. William Stringham, bora Aug. i, 1807; died unmar- 

ried March 14, 1863, at Metaghan, N. S. 

3. Evelina Christina^, born July 8, i8og; m. Gilbert 

Ruggles^ Tucker. 

CIIILiD— SECOND MAKRIAGE. 

4. Margaret McCarthy; died unmarried in 1865. 

Shelburne, a seaport town of Nova Scotia, and county seat of Shel- 
burne County, is on the N. E. arm of a capacious harbor, 160 miles 
S. W. of Halifax. This harbor is regarded as the best in Nova 
Scotia. Shelburne is a place of considerable trade, and has ex- 
cellent facilities for repairing and furnishing of vessels. It contains 
iron works, several hotels and stores; population, 1,000. Shelburne 
County has a population of 12,417. — Lippincott's Pronomicing 
Gazetteer, page 2430. 

The Will of Hendricks Snyder and the letter of Barbara Snyder indi- 
cate that Hendrick^ Snyder was a Loyalist, hence the Revolutionary 
War service credited to Hendrick Snyder is supposed to apply to 
Hendrick'- Snyder. 

Positive proof of the parentage of Ann* Stringham is needed. A pub- 
lished pamphlet of the Sackett family gives Colonel James and 
Deborah (Sackett) Stringham as the parents of Ann Stringham 
who married William Snyder. 

There was a William Stringham who served in the Orange County, 
N. Y., militia during the Revolution, 



172 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

HOFFMAN, 

HARMANUS HOFFMAN, (probably a descendant of 
Martinus Hoffman, of Ulster County, N. Y,), was a resident 
of Tappan, Orange County, New York. 

He married Mary Gertrude Smith. 

His will is dated Feb. 15, 1752, and proved in April, 
1754. 

CHILI; BEN. 

1. Harmanus. 

2. Jury. 

3. Christina. 

4. Rachel. 

5. Catharine^, m. Hendrick^ Snyder. 

6. Laya. 

7. John, born March 16, 1720; baptized AjTil 12, 1720. 

8. William, born Nov. 24, 1721; baptized January 16 

1722. 



STKINGHAM, 

FIRST GENERATION. 

PETERi STRINGHAM'S name first appears on a 
list of estates of the town of Jamaica, I^ong Island, in 1683 
as £61. o. o. 



CHILD. 



Samuel. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

CAPTAIN SAMUEL^ STRINGHAM [son of Peter 
Stringham], was a resident of Flushing, Queens County, 
Long Island. He married Hannah . 

He served as a private in Jonathan Wright's Company 
of Flushing, L. I., in 171 5. 

AUTHORITY— Fernow, Berthold; Calendar of Wills, New York, p. 180. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 173 

He was a Captain of the Queens County, N. Y. militia 
in 1738. 

On November 12, 1727, he witnessed the will of 
John Hicks of Flushing. 

His will is dated March 16, 1752, and probated May 
14, 1752. 

His widow died July 30, 1774, at Flushing, L. I. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. yavies^; m. Mary Cornell and Deborah Sackett. 

2. Samuel; died May 31, 1794. 

3. Hannah. 

4. Sarah; m. Daniel Bowne. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



CORPORAL JAMES^ STRINGHAM (C(7/>/. SamueP, 
Peter'^), son of Captain Samuel and Hannah Stringham. 

June 23, 1727, he married Mary Cornell of Flushing, 
L. I. October 28, 1737, he married Deborah Sackett 
Judge Joseph^, Captain Joseph^ , Simon}, Sinion^), [son 
of Judge Joseph* and Hannah (Alsop) Sackett] who was 
born in 17 18. 

March 16, 1736, a survey of two tracts of land of 
James Stringham, being parts of the lands formerly granted 
to Captain John Evans, was made. The first tract was on 
the east bank of Paltz Creek in Ulster County, N. Y. , and 
contained 1,630 acres. The second tract contained 370 
acres in Orange County, N. Y. , and was described as fol- 



AUTHORITIES — Riker, James, Jr.: Annals of Newtown, Queens County 

N. Y., p. 317. 
Report of the State Historian, Colonial Series, Albany, N. Y. 1896, 

Vol. 1, p. 491 and 614; (1897), Vol. 2, p. 497. 
Tucker. G. J , New York Marriages (1860); p. 377. 
Calendar of New York Colonial Manuscripts— 1643-1803; Vol. 12; 
Documentary History of New York, Vol. 2, p. 519. 
New York Genealogical and Biog. Record, Vol. 7, p. 89; Vol. 11, p. 134 
Vol. 18 of New York County Wills, p. 112. 



174 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

lows : Commencing at the most westerly corner of a tract 
of 222 acres granted, surveyed for Joseph Sackett by 
Cadwallader Colden, Surveyor General. 

In 1738 James Stringham was a corporal of the foot 
company of militia of the precinct of the Highland, under 
command of Captain Thomas Ellison. 

CHILD. 

Ann, born in 1753; m. William^ Snyder. 



SACKETT. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

SIMON 1 SACKETT, from Isle of Ely, Cambridge- 
shire, England, and his wife, Isabel, with sons, Simon and 
John, came to America in the " Lion" in 1632, and settled 
at Cambridge. He had a share in the division of land in 
August, 1635, ^'^d died soon after in October, 1635. 

On November 3, 1635, his wife administered on his 
estate. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Simon^, born in England; m. Sarah Bloomfield. 

2. John, born in England. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

SIM0N2 SACKETT [son of Simoni and Isabel Sack- 
ett] was born in England in 1630, and was brought by his 
parents to America in 1632. He removed from Cambridge 
to Springfield, Mass., about 1654. 

About 1653 he married Sarah Bloomfield, daughter of 
William and Sarah Bloomfield. 

March 13, 1656, he took the oath of fidelity. 

AUTHORITIES— Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Vol. 4, 
page 2. 
Pope, Charles H.; Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 396. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 175 



He died July 9, 1659, in Springfield, Mass., aged 29. 
His widow survived him. 



CIITL,D. 



Joseph"^, born at Springfield, Mass-, Feb. 23, 1656; m, 
Elizabeths Betts. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

CAPTAIN JOSEPH' SACKETT {Simon^, Simon^), 
[son of Simon^ and Sarah^ (Bloomfield) Sackett], was born 
February 23, 1656, in Springfield, Mass, In 1662 he re- 
moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he held office in 
the Presbyterian Church. He was Road Commissioner, 
Assessor, Collector and Supervisor. 

He married (first) Elizabeth Betts [daughter of Rich- 
ard Betts] ; he married (second) Ann . 

He married (third) in 17 11, Mrs. Mercy (Whitehead 
Betts, widow of Thomas Betts and daughter of Daniel and 
Whitehead. 

He was a warden of the church at Jamaica, L. I., on 
February, 25, 1702. He served as Ensign, Lieutenant and 
Captain of the Long Island militia. 

He had a large estate. 

December 17, 1700, and April 2, 1706, he was chosen 
Supervisor of Newtown, L. I. 

September 27, 1687, he was chosen Assessor of New- 
town, L. I. 

January 11, 1700, was chosen Surveyor of Highways, 
He died in 17 19 aged 64. 

1. Simon^ Sackett m. Isabel. 

2. Simon Sackett m. Sarah Bloomfield. 

3. Captain Joseph Sackett m. Elizabeth Betts. 

4. Judge Joseph Sackett m. Hannah Alsop. 

5. Elizabeth Sackett m. Jonathan Fish. 

6. Colonel Nicholas Fish m. Elizabeth Stuyvesant. 

7. Hamilton Fish, Governor of New York, 1808-1900; Secrefiry of 

State in President Grant's Cabinet, 1869-1877. 



176 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY, 





CHILDREN. 


I. 


Richard, born in 1678. 


2. 


Joseph'^, born in 16S0, m. Hannah Alsop 


3- 


Anna, born in 1681. 


4- 


Simon. 


5- 


Elizabeth. 


6. 


John. 


7- 


Sarah, born in 1689. 


8. 


Abigail, born in 1695. 


9- 


William, born in 1697. 


lo. 


Patience, born in 1700. 


11. 


Samuel. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

JUDGE JOSEPH* SACKETT {Captain Joseph^, 
Simoii^, Sinion^^) [son of Captain Joseph^ and Eliza- 
beth^ (Belts) Sackett], was born in 1680 at English Kills, 
Newtown, Long Island. 

In May, 1706, he married Hannah^ Alsop [daughter of 
Captain Richard and Hannah Alsop]. She was born Jan- 
uary 1 1, 1690. 

He held an office in the Presbyterian Church at New- 
town, L. I. 

In 1724 he purchased a half interest in the " Cham- 
bers-Southerland Patent," located on the west shore of the 
Hudson River, New Windsor Township, Orange County, 
N. Y. He built a substantial wharf, erected a commodious 
storehouse, and established a sloop freight and passenger 
line, which ran at stated intervals to and from New York. 
They also started and maintained a flat-boat ferry at that 
point, which carried horses and cattle, as well as passengers, 
to the opposite shore at Fishkill Landing. 

February 2, 1704, he was chosen Assessor of Newtown. 

He was a Justice of the Peace and a Judge from 1749 
until his death. 



AUrHORITY— Documentary History of New York (1S5S). Vol. 3, p. 201 
Riker, James, Annals of Newtown, N. Y., pp. 344-347, 419, 423. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 177 

He died at English Kills, L. I., on September 27, 
1755. His widow survived him and died June 17, 1773. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Joseph, born in 1707. 

2. Richard, born in 1709. 

3. Hannah, born in 171 1. 

4. Elizabeth, born in 1713. 

5. John, born in 1716. 

6. Deborah^, born in 1718; m. James'^ Stringham. 

7. Frances, born in 1720. 

8. James, born in 1722. 
g. Samuel, born in 1724. 

10. Thomas, born in 1726. 

11. Elizabeth, born in 1726. 

12. William, born in 1731. 



BLOOMFIELD. 

WILLIAM BLOOMFIELD, his wife Sarah, and their 
daughter Sarah, came to America in the "Elizabeth of 
Ipswich" on April 30, 1634. They settled in Cambridge, 
Mass., having on Feb. 8, 1635, received a grant of six acres 
on the south side of the river, where he became a pro- 
prietor, and a freeman Sept. 2, 1635. He sold his house 
and lands to Robert Steadman on Sept. 21, 1639. He 
removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1659, and in 1663 to New- 
town, Long Island. He served in the Pequod War in i^ij, 
and participated in the division of lands at Hartford in 
1639. He was exempted from training by the General 
Court in 1657-8, 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Sarah'^, m. Simon^ Sackett. 

2. John, baptized August 23, 1645. 

3. Samuel, born July 12, 1647. 

AUTHORITIES— Green, F. B.; History of Rockland County, N. Y., New 
York, 1886, pp. 58, 228, 371, 414. 
Riker's Annals of Newtown, L. I., page 420. 



178 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

BETTS. 

CAPTAIN RICHARD BETTS of Hemel. Hempstead, 
Herts, England, came to America in 1636, and settled at 
Cambridge, Mass. About 1646 he was a resident of 
Ipswich, Mass. On December 19, 1648, he agreed to con- 
tribute 4 shillings per annum to Major Denison. In 1656 
he removed to Newtown, L. I., where he died Novem- 
ber 18, 17 1 3, aged 100 years. His wife's name was 
Joanna — — . 

He was a mem.ber of the New York Provisional As- 
sembly from Hempstead in 1655. In 1657 he was a Magis- 
trate at Newtown under the Dutch, which office he held 
many years. October 30, 1678, he was commissioned 
High Sheriff of Yorkshire upon Long Island, and held the 
office until 1681. 





CHILDREN. 


I. 


Richard. 


2. 


Thomas. 


3- 


Joanna. 


4' 


Mary. 


5- 


Martha. 


6. 


Elizabeth^, m. Captain Joseph^ Sackett. 


7- 


Sarah. 



AUTHORITIES— N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 2, p. 58; Vol. 55, p. 300 . 
Riker's Annals of Newtown, pp. 373, 374, 418. 
Society of Colonial Wars, year book, 1897-8, p. 424. 
Bodge, George M. ; Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 466. 
Hinman, R. R. ; First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, p. 260. 
Pope, C. H.; Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 56. 
Paige, L. R.; History of Cambridge, Mass., p. 35. 
N. E. H. & G. Register; Vol. 12, p. 173. 
Calkins, E. M.; History of New London, Conn., p. 93. 
Proprietors' Records of the Town of Cambridge, Mass., 1896, p. 59, 
Records of the Town and Selectmen of Cambridge, 1630-1703, p. 17. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 179 

ALSOP. 

CAPTAIN RICHARD ALSOP was born in 1660. 

Richard Alsop was a member of the Queens County, 
N. Y. , Troop of Horse in 171 5, commanded by Captain 
Timothy Bayle}^ 

He married Hannah , who was born in 1666. 

He died in October, 1718. His widow died August 23, 
1757, aged 91. 

CniJLDRE]^. 



I. 


Thomas, born Sept, 17, 1687. 


2. 


Bafinah^, born January 11, 1690, m. Judge Joseph* 




Sackett. 


3- 


Richard. 


4- 


John. 


5- 


Deborah. 


6. 


Amy. 


7. 


Ehzabeth. 


8. 


Susannah. 



JOHNSTONE 

FIRST GENERATION. 

DR. JOHN' JOHNSTONE (son of Rev. WilHam John- 
stone of La foule. Lew), a native of Scotland, was a drug- 
gist in Edinburgh. He was a member of the company that 
set sail in the "Henry and Francis" in 1685. George 
Scot died on the voyage, and command of the vessel fell to 
John Johnstone. They arrived off the New Jersey coast in 
December, 1685. On April 18, 1686, he married Euphemia 
Scot [daughter of George Scot]. He became a practicing 
physician in New York, and about 1700 he removed to 
Perth Amboy, N. J. 

AUTHORITY— Report of the State Historian, Colonial Series, Albany, N. Y., 
1860, vol. 1, page 488. 
Riker, James; History of Newtown, L. I., page 335. 



180 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

He was a member 3f the General Assembly thirteen 
years; Speaker ten years; Judge of the Supreme Court of 
Monmouth County; a member of the King's Council, 
and Mayor oi New York from 17 14 to 17 18. 

John Johnstone was a merchant of the County of Mon- 
mouth, and one of the eight proprietors in the Piovince to 
surrender the government 01 East Jersey, which surrender 
was effected on April 13, 1702. 

He was recommended by a majority of the proprietors 
of the Provinces of East and West Jersey to be one of the 
Council in New Jersey, but on August 12, 1702, was ob- 
jected to "as being of the Scotch & Quaker ffactions con- 
cerned sundry yss. in the divisions S, incendiary Parties 

that has brought those Provinces into such confusion of 
Government injustice to ye Proprietors and aversion of ye 
Planters and Inhabitants." 

Proposed as a member of Council April 6, 1704. 

He was a member of the Assembly in 1709 and 1710, 
and was appointed Judge in 171 1. 

He was one of the Commissioners appointed to settle 
the North Partition point between New Jersey and New 
York in 17 19. Was a member of the Council in 1722. 

"Gives lands in Amboy to voters to secure their 
votes; was ' frankly taxed ' by letter from Governor Burnet 
with all his double dealings with the breach of his honour 
and promise, etc." 

He owned 30, 500 acres of New Jersey lands. 

He died Sept. 7, 1732, in his 71st year. His widow 
died about 1 760-1 765. Her will was dated April 14, 1741, 
and probated in 1765. 



AUTHORITIES — American Historical Register, Vol. 1, pp. 44 to 54, and 145 
to 154. 

The Story of an Old Farm (Millick), p. 128. 

New Jersey Archives, Vol. 3, p. 51; Vol. 4, pp. 119, 132: and 394; 
Vol. 5, pp. 60 to 63. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 181 

CHILDHEISr. 

1. Eiphamia^, born January i8, 1687. 

2. Isabel, born in i683. 

3. Katherine, born in i68g. 

4. John, born May 7, 1691. 

5. Margaret, born Feb. 12, 1693. 

6. Andrew^, born Dec. 20, 1694; m. Catherine^ Van 

Cortlandt. 

7. William, born in 1696. 

8. Janet, born in April, 1699. 
g. James, born Oct. 3, 1700. 

10. George, born Sept. 3, 1702, 

11. Lewis, born in October, 1704. 

12. Isabel, born in July, 1707. 

13. Mary, bora Oct. 12, 1710. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

ANDREW^ JOHNSTONE [son of Dr. John^ and 
Eupham^ (Scot) Johnstone], was born Dec. 29, 1694, in 
New York City. 

In 1 7 14 he became a merchant of New York, and 
about 1 7 18 removed to Perth Amboy, N. J. 

He married Catherine^ Van Cortlandt [^Stephanus^, 
Oloff Stevens'^) [daughter of Stephanus^ and Gertrude^ 
(Schuyler) Van Cortlandt], of New York City, who was 
born June 24, 1696. 

He succeeded his father as a member of the Provisional 
Assembly of New Jersey, and later was chosen Speaker. 

He became Mayor of Perth Amboy and President of 
the Board of Proprietors. He was the first Treasurer of 
Princeton College, then known as the " College of New 
Jersey," and one of the trustees when it received its 
charter. 



182 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



On June 24, 1762, he died in Perth Amboy, N, J , in 
the 68th year of his age; his wife having died August 
27, 1747. 



Will of Andrew Johnston. 

In the name of God Amen I Andrew Johnston of the City of Perth 
Ambo)' in the Province of New Jersey being weak in body but of sound mind 
and memory do make this ray last will and testament I give and devise to 
my eldest Son John all that part of a tract of land in Perth Amboy called 
Forsters neck lying on the South side of Market Street Also the Easterly half 
of the Town Lott which joins to David Johnston's lott whereon his house 
stands Also the bank lott fronting the same with buildings thereon To have 
and to hold to my Son John his heirs and assigns forever. 

Item I give and devise to my Son Stephen his heirs and assigns all that 
part of said Forsters neck which lies on the Northerly side of Market Street 
with the appurtenances also all that remaining half of the Town lott which half 
is one chain in breadth on High street and joins northerly on aloft late of John 
Stevens deceased and easterly on the half devised to my Son John Also all that 
bank lott fronting David Johnston's house which I bought of John Stevens 
deceased being one chain in breadth and in length from Water Street to low 
water mark with the buildings thereon and appurtenances to have and to hold 
the same to my said Son Stephen his heirs and assigns forever. 

. Item I give to my Executors hereinafter named and to the survivors of 
them full power and authority to sell all my lands tenements hereditaments 
and real estate whatsoever and wheresoever not above devised and to make 
sufficient title for the same to the purchasor or purchasers as fully as I myself 
could do and also to sell all my personal Estate and in the first place to pay 
mv just debts. And whereas my son in law John Barborie is intitled by gift 
from me to one quarter part of thirteen hundred pounds which the mills at 
Matcheponia were lately sold for I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary to 
my Son John and to my Daughters Catherine and Elizabeth and to my Son 
Stephen and to my grand sou William Terrill each of them a like sum with 
that my said son in law is entitled to unto which I devise my Executors to pay 
unto them respectively to those who are of the age of twenty-one years as 
money comes to their hands and to the others when they arrive at that age and 
all the rest of my estate whatsoeve v and wheresoever not above disposed of I 
give and bequeath one seventh part thereof (the same in seven equal parts to 
be divided) to my said son in law John Barborie and his wife Gertruyd my 
daughter their heirs and assigns forever one seventh part to my daughter Mary 
her heirs and assigns one seventh part thereof to my son John one seventh 
part to my daughter Cathrine and one seventh part to my daughter Elizabeth 
one seventh part to my son Stephen and the other seventh part to my Grandson 
William Terrill son of my daughter .-^nne Terrill deceased and their respective 
heirs and assigns forever subject to be held as afores'd. And I will that my 
executors from time to time accordingly divide the money that shall arise on 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



183 



CHIJLDREN. 

1. Stephen. 

2. Anne. 
Gertrude. 
Catherine. 

John'^ , born in 1737; m. Isabella* Hooper. 
Margaret. 
Elizabeth. 
Mary. 
Euphemia. 

The inscription on the Johnston tomb in St. Peter's 
Church yard, Perth Amboy, reads : 

HERE 

LYE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF 

KATHERINE JOHNSTON 

WHOSE BENEVOLENCE ENDEARED HER 

TO THE DISTRESSED 

HER LIKE WAS A CONTINUAL EXAMPLE 

OF CONJUGUL AFFECTION & MATERNAL 

TENDERNESS 

SHE LEFT THIS VALE OF TEARS FOR AN 

HAPPY IMMORTALITY. 

AUGT. 27, 1747. AGED 50. 

the sales that may be made to pay the shares of those under age to them when 
they are of the age of twenty one years and if my grand-son William Terrill 
shall die before he is of that age not leaving lawful living issue then I give 
and bequeath all the part of my estate before given to him unto my other 
legatees sons and daughters to be equally divided between them or their 
representatives one sixth to each. 

Item I appoint the aforesaid John Barberie and Gertrude his wife my 
Daughter Mary Johnston my Son John Johnston my Daughters Catherine and 
Elizabeth Johnston and as they respectively come of age my Son Stephen 
Johnston and My Grandson William Terrill to be the executors of this my last 
will and testament and I intreat my friends Hon'ble Robert Hunter Morris Esq. 
and John Stevens Esqr. to be aiding & Assisting to my Executors in the per- 
formance of this my will and I give to each of them a ring in token of my 
esteem and affection for them 4nd lastly I revoke all former wills and testa- 
ments by me made In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
this Second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 

and sixty-one. 

Andrew Johnston, Seal. 
Probated July 7, 1762. 



184 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

JOHN'^ JOHNSTONE {Andrezv^, John') [son of 
Andrew'^ and Catherine^ (Van Cortlandt) Johnstone] was 
born in 1737. 

He was married at Perth Amboy, N. J., on February 2, 
1768, by Rev. John Preston to Isabella* Hooper [Robert 
Lettice^, Robert Lettice^, DaiiieP) [daughter of Robert 
Lettice^ and Christina"^ (Ebrington) Hooper], who was 
born in 1748. 

In 1767 he was a member of the Assembly, and was 
appointed one of the committee to correspond with the 
agent of the Colony in Great Britain. 

He was a merchant until 1775 in partnership with 
Peter Barbarie. 

He served as a private in Captain Jeremiah Ballard's 
Company, Third Battalion, Second Establishment of New 
Jersey troops during the Revolutionary War, He also 
served in the New Jersey militia during the Revolution. 

He died in Perth Amboy, N. J., January 15, 1820. His 
widow died there December 14, 1823. They are both 
buried in the Johnston lot of St. Peter's Episcopal Church 
graveyard at Perth Amboy. 

His will reads : 

1, John Johnston of the City of Perth Amboy, in the County of Middle- 
sex and State of New Jersey, being weak in body, but of sound mind and 
memory, do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament, in manner 
following : 

I give, devise and bequeath unto my dear wife Isabel, All the 
Estate, both Real and Personal, of which I am possessed or am entitled to, 
wheresoever the same may be situate, to have and to hold my by said Wife 
Isabel, her heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby nominate, constitute 
and appoint my said Wife Isabel to be executrix of this my Will. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-first 
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ten. 

John Johnston. Seal. 
Probated April 20, 1823. 

AUTHORITY — Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the 
Revolutionary War. Trenton, N. J., 1872; pp. 222 and 648. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 185 

CHILDKEN. 

1. Andrew^, born May 25, 1770, at Perth Amboy; died 

October 11, 1771. 

2. Andrew, born September 18, 1771. 

3. Isabella, born September 18, 1772. 

4. Robert Hooper, born January 20, 1774. 

5. Catherine, born August 25, 1775. 

6. Mary, born September 2, 1777, at Matchponies; 

died September 11, 1777. 

7. John, born August i, 1778. 

8. Christina Rutus'^, born May 20, 1780, at Spotswood, 

N. J.; m. William Stringham^ Snyder. 

9. Augustus Scot, born September 11, 1782, at New 

Brunswick, N. J. 

10. Mary, born December 28, 1784, at Perth Amboy. 

11. William Burnett, born July 22, 1786. 



SCOT. 



GEORGE SCOT was the son of Sir John and 
Margaret"^ (Mslvilla) Scot. Laird of Pitloche, of Scots- 
tarvet, in Fife, Scotland. He married Margaret Rigg, 
daughter of William Rigg, of Aitherine, Edinburgh. 

" He was a Presbyterian — a great offense in tho3 3 
times. From the days of the Restoration to the Revolution 
of 1 688, Presbyterianism was a crime in the eyes of the 
Grown only to be dealt with in the severest manner. As the 
King was in great need of money, those Presbyterians who 
could pay fines escaped with only the loss of property." 

" George Scot had the courage of his convictions. He 
attended conventicles, for which dire offense he was brought 
before the council and heavily fined." 

" For a few years before their departure for America 
they lived in Edinburgh." 

* Daughter of Sir James Melville of Hallville. 
AUTHORITY— American Historical Register, Philadelphia (1894), pp. 45 to54. 



186 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

"He wrote a work entitled, "The Model of the 
Government of the Province of East New Jersey in America." 
He made exhaustive researches for the purpose, and had 
access to many records and documents that have since dis- 
appeared or been destroyed." 

" Scot vindicated the sincerity of his opinions by 
obtaining from the proprietors July 28, 1685, a grant of 
500 acres of land in East New Jersey, and the following 
month he engaged to take 10,000 acres of Lord Neil 
Campbell in the same province." 

September 5, 1685, he sailed with his family for 
America in the "Henry and Francis," with 100 banished 
peasants to form a colony, but both George Scot and his 
wife died on the voyage. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Euphajfi', born in Scotland; m. Dr. John^ Johnstone, 

2. James^, born in Scotland. 



VAN CORTLANDT. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

OLOFF STEVENSi VAN CORTLANDT [son of 
Hon. Steven Van Cortlandt], was born in Wijik, Holland, 
in 1600. 

He came to America in the ship " Haring " as an 
officer of the West India Company in 1638, and settled at 
New Amsterdam, and was appointed keeper of the stores 
of said company in 1643, resigning in 1648. 

In 1649 he was made a Colonel of the " City Train 
Band." In 1655 he was chosen burgomaster (Mayor), 
which office he held until 1664. 

In 1664 the English captured New Amsterdam from 
the Dutch and re-named it New York. 

He resided in Brouwer Straat (now Stone street). 

AUTHORITY— New York Genealogical aud Biog. Record; Vol. 8, p. 12. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 187 

He married on February 26, 1642, Annetje Loocker- 
mans, (sister of Govert Loockermans). She died in 1669. 
He was a successful merchant and died April 4, 1684, 
leaving a large estate. 

CniLDBEN. 

1. Siephanus^ , horn May 7, 1643; m. Gertrude^ Schuyler. 

2. Mary, born July 30, 1644. 

3. Johannes, born Oct. 11, 1648. 

4. Sophia, born May 31, 1651. 

5. Catharina, born Oct. 25, 1652. 

6. Cornelia, born Nov. 21, 1655. 

7. Jacobus, born July 7, 1658. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

STEPHANUS- VAN CORTLANDT [son of Oioff 
Stevens^ and Annetje (Lockermans) Van Cortlandt] was 
born in New Amsterdam (New York City), May 7, 1643. 
Baptized May 10, 1643. 

September 10, 1671, he was married to Gertrude^ 
Schuyler [daughter of Philip Pieterse^ and Margareta^ (Van 
Slichtenhorst) Schuyler] who was born February 4, 1654. 

In 1668 he was appointed in the Kings County militia 
as an Ensign, then chosen as Captain and latea Colonel. 

From 1677 until 1700 he was Mayor of New York, the 
first native born American to fill that office. He was a 
member of the Governor's Council from 1680 to 1700, and 
for a few months prior to his death he held the office of 
Chief Justice of the Province. Was appointed Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas of Kings County, and in 1693 
a Judge of the Supreme Court. 

"His estate was erected into a lordship and manor of 
Cortlandt by patent of William HI., bearing date June 17, 
1697. The Van Cortlandt manor house is one of the 
oldest edifices that now remains on the borders of the 
Hudson River. It stands on the northern shores of Croton 



188 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



Bay, and was built both as a country residence and as a 
fort, the walls being of reddish freestone nearly three feet 
in thickness, pierced with loop-holes for musketry. It was 
built originally as a fortified trading house by Stephanus 
Van Cortlandt, and added to by the successive owners. In 
it were entertained some of the most notable persons in the 
history of the State, beginning with the early Colonial 
Governors. George Whitefield preached to the tenants 
from the veranda, and among the guests entertained at 
different times were Washington, Rochambeau, La Fayette 
and Franklin." 

He died in New York on the 25th day of November, 
1700, aged 57 years. His will was dated April 14, 1700, 
and proved July 7, 1701. His widow died about 1719 in 
New York. Her will was made in October, 1718. 

The area of the Van Cortlandt estate in Westchester 
County contained 87,713 acres. In the partition of the 
estate the wife of Andrew Johnston received 1233 front 
lots, each heir receiving about 8,000 acres. 

CITILDREX. 

I. John^, born October 24, 1672. 

4. Margaret, born August 2, 1674. 

3. Anne, born February 13, 1676. 

4. Oliver, born October 26, 1678. 

5. Mary, born April 4, 1680, 

6 Gertrude, born January 18, 1681. 

7. Philip, born August 9, 1683. 

8. Stephen, born August 11, 1685. 

9. Gertrude, born October 10, 1688. 

10. Gysbert, born in 1689. 

11. Elizabeth, born in i6gi. 

12. Elizabeth, born May 24, 1694. 

13. Catherine"^, born June24, 1696; m. Andrew^ Johnston^ 

14. Cornelia, born July 30, 1698. 

AUTHORITIES— Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; Vol. 6, p. 237. 
Bolton, Rev. Robert, History of the County of Westchester N Y 

(1881), Vol. 1, pp. 83 to 113. 
Shonnard, Fred'k'and Spooner, W. \V., History of Westchester County, 

N. Y., (1900). 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY, 



189 



SCHUYLER. 



PHILIP PIETERSE^ SCHUYLER, the founder of 
one of the oldest and most prominent famihes in New 
York, came from Amsterdam, Holland, before 1650, and 
settled at Albany, N, Y. He was married on December 
12, 1650, to Margareta- Van Slichtenhorst (daughter of 
Herr Brandt Arent Van Slichtenhorst). He became the 
owner of property in New York City, Albany and along the 
Hudson River. He was chosen Captain of the foot com- 
pany of Albany militia in 1667. 

He died May 9, 1683. She died in 171 1 in her 84th 
year. 

Their joint will was dated May i, 1683, and probated 
March 4, 1683-4.* 

1. Gysbert^, born July 2, 1652. 

2. Gertrude'^, born Feb. 4, 1654; m. Stephanus^ Van 

Cortlandt. 

3. Alydia, born February 28, 1656. 

4. Peter, bora September 17, 1657. 

5. Brant, born December 18, 1659. 

6. Arent, born June 25, 1662. 

7. Sybella, born November 12, 1664. 

8. Philip, born February 8, i656. 

9. Johannes, born April 5, i663. 
10. Margaret, born January 2, 1672. 



1. Philip Pieterse^ Schuyler m. Margareta Van Schlichtenhorst. 

2. John- Schuyler m. Elizabeth Staats. 

3. Col. John^ Schuyler m. Cornelia Van Cortlandt. 

4. Major General Philip* Schuyler m. Catharine Van Rensselaer. He 

was born in Albany, N. Y., November 23, 1733, and took an 
active and important part in the Revolution. He died November 
18, 1804. 

5. Elizabeth^ Schuyler, born August 9, 1757; m. on December 14, 1780, 

Alexander Hamilton, who was born in the Island of Nevis, in 
the West Indies, on January 11, 1757. He became the first Sec- 
retary of the Treasury under George Washington. Was mortally 
wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804, and died 
the following day. His widow died November 9, 1854, in Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
*A copy of this will in fac simile appears in the "Calendar of Wills," 
published by the Colonial Daraes of the State of New York (1896). 



190 THE TUCKER GEMEALOGY. 

VAN SLICHTENHOFST. 

On the death of Kilian Van Rensselaer, the founder 

of the Van Rensselaer manor, in 1640, the executors of the 

estate selected Herr Brandt Arent Van Slichtenhorst, tiie 

scion of a very ancient Holland family, to manage the 

affairs of Rensselaerwyck. He was a bold, resolute, active 

man, swift in decision, immovable in his opinions, and 

inclined to be captious as well as caustic. His energies 

were focused to the exceedingly precise point of undeviating 

loyalty to the young patron, and of resisting all pretensions 

of the West India Company's officers to supreme rulership 

of New Netherland. In appearance he looked like an 

athlete. He was tall, of almost gigantic proportions, with 

a round, level head on broad, square shoulders — nerve and 

confidence in every line of his strong, florid face, and every 

movement of his well built frame. 

He was the first resident director of the Colony of 
Rensselaerwick, 1646-8, and commander of the fort at 
Rensselaerwick. 

In the elements of leadership and in will power he 
was not inferior to Governor Stuyvesant, and the two re- 
markable men were suddenly in sharp conflict. The 
Governor sent a written order that no buildings should be 
erected by the patroon within 600 paces of the fort at 
Albany, and as Van Slichtenhorst paid no attention to the 
mandate, Stuyvesant sent a sheriff to prevent the erection 
of a fort. No attention was paid to his interference, the 
fort was completed, cannon planted and flag hoisted. As 
soon as affairs permitted, Stuyvesant went with an escort to 
Rensselaerwyck and charged Van Slichtenhorst with con- 
tempt of authority, which charge was answered with re- 
torts. The Governor said the buildings were objectionable; 
Van Slichtenhorst declared hotly that the soil on which 
they stood belonged to the patroon, and the interview 
resulted in nothing. One insubordination after another 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 191 

followed, until at last Stuyvesant sent, by authority of the 
Amsterdam Chamber, two proclamations to Albany, one 
annulling Van Slichtenhorst's ordinance, which had pro- 
hibited the cutting of firewood for uses of the fort from the 
unfenced forests; the other annulling all grants of land from 
the patroon's agent, within 6oo paces of the fort. As 
these proclamations were repeatedly disregarded Van 
Slichtenhorst was arrested and imprisoned four months at 
the fort in the battery, when he made his escape and re- 
turned to Rensselaerswyck. Shortly afterward some of the 
soldiers were guilty of aggressions which nearly produced a 
civil war, and the manner of Van Slichtenhorst's defense 
caused the Governor to issue a placard declaring the juris- 
diction of the fort to extend over a radius of 600 paces 
around the citadel. When the placard came to Van 
Slichtenhorst's notice he exclaimed : "It shall not be done 
as long as we have a drop of blood in our veins, nor until 
we receive orders from their High Mightiness and our 
honored masters,'' and rushing forward tore the placard 
from the deputies' hands. Other placards were posted up, 
but were immediately torn down. At last the exasperated 
Governor marched with an armed force to Rensselaerwyck, 
and after much resistance broke in the doors of Van 
Slichtenhorst's house, forcibly conveyed him to the fort, 
and he was soon taken to New York. 

It was months before he was brought to trial, and then 
the case was too complicated for a decision to be reached. 

He remained under '• civil arrest," spending his time 
chiefly on Staten Island. 



CHILD. 



Margareta^, born ; m. Philip Pieterse^ Schuyler. 



AUTHORITY— Magazine of American History, Vol. 11. pp. 1 to 32. 



192 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

HOOPER. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

MAJOR DANIEL! HOOPER came to America in the 
"Ketch Joseph" to New York, and shortly afterward was 
a resident of the Parish of St. Michaels in the Island of 
Barbadoes, West Indies, 

In 1682 he arrived at Perth Amboy, N. J., and asked 
permission to land his family and nine servants, which was 
granted. 

On August 14, 1683, he was made Justice of the Court 
of Common Rights. 

He bought 600 acres of land along the Raritan in 1682, 
and he was a large holder of Trenton real estate, nearly 
all of the lower part of Trenton belonged to the family at 
one time. 

His will is dated October i, 1700. 

At the time of his death he left a large estate in the 
Barbadoes. 







CHILDREN. 




I. 

2. 

3- 

4- 








Elizabeth. 
Daniel. 
Robert Lettice^ , 


born in 1670 ; 


m. Sarah 


5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 


Anne. 
Eleinor. 
John. 
William. 







An article in his will reads : 

Item. 1 do hereby will, order and appoint that my executors hereinafter 
named, within six months after my decease, pay unto the Church Wardens of 
the parish of Christ Church, in the Island of Barbadoes, for the time being, 
the sum of fifty pounds of current money of this island towards the charge of 
placing the creed, the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments, the tigures of 
Moses and Aaron, in some convenient place in the church of the parish 
aforesaid. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 193 



SECOND GENERATION. 



CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERT LETTICE^ HOOPER 

(sen of Major Daniel^ Hooper), was born in the Island of 
Barbadoes, West Indies, about 1670. He came with his 
parents to New Jersey about 1682, and settled at Perth 
Amboy. 

He married Sarah . 

He was one of the three commissioners to sign £40 
bills of credit in 1723. 

On January 2, 1724-5, he was nominated by Governor 
William Burnet to succeed William Trent as Chief Justice 
of New Jersey, which office he held from 1724 to 1728, and 
from 1729 to 1739. 

The Will of Robert Lettice Hooper. 

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three distinct persons 
and one God, Amen, I, Robert Lettice Hooper, of the City of Perth Amboy, 
in the County of Middlesex and Province of New Jersey, being sick and weak 
in Body but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be to God 
therefore, and considering the frailty of Human Nature, and the uncertainty of 
this life, do make and ordain this ray last will and testament (That is to say), 
First, and Principally I recommend my soul unto Almighty God who gave it 
me, hoping through the merits of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to receive 
and obtain pardon for all my sins and to inherit eternal life, and my body 
to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors herein- 
after named, and as for and concerning such worldly estate wherewith it hath 
pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and bequeath the sime in 
manner following: 

Imprimis. My will and desire is that all and singular my just debts and 
funeral expenses be duly paid and satisfied. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sarah, her heirs and 
assigns, one negro man named Squire and one negro girl named Mando. 

Item. I give and bequeath to my said wife Sarah, my negro man Orantoos 
and my negro wench Cloe, to have and to hold to her my said wife for and 
during the term of her natural lite, and from and after her decease my will 
and desire is that my said Negro man Orrantoos and my Negro wench Cloe 
shall be free, and my will further is that my said two negroes shall have two 
acres of part of the lot I formerly bought of Charles Dunther, Esqr., deceased 
lying in Perth Amboy aforesaid, for ana during their natural lives, and I also 
give unto my said negro's one milch cow to be then delivered them by my 
Exors. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my said beloved wile the use of all and 
singular my household goods, plate and furniture, and all other my moveables. 



194 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

He was appointed February 29, 1727-8, as Chief 
Justice by King George II. 

Governor Cosley, on the 6th day of December, 1734, 
speaks of Mr. Justice Hooper in recommending him to be 

whatsoever that is in and about and belonging to the house where I now 
live for and during the term of her natural life, and after her decease I give 
and bequeath the same unto my son James Hooper and my daughter Isabella 
Hoo'per forever equally to be divided between them. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Lettis Hooper his heirs 
and assigns one negro man named Omer and one negro boy named Charles 
son of the said Omer. 

Item. I do hereby confirm unto my said son James Hooper and to my 
said daughter Isabella Hooper whatsoever I have heretofore by deeds of gift 
severally given. 

Item. I give and devise and bequeath unto my said wife Sarah, and to 
my said son James Hooper, my said son Robert Lettis Hooper, and to my 
daughter Isabella Hooper, all debts and sums of money that is any ways due 
to me Irom the Estate of Richard Rycraft, late of the Island of Barbadoes, 
Esqr, deceased, or of and from any person or persons whatsoever on the said 
Island to be equally divided between them share and share alike. 

Item. I give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate, 
both real and personal whatsoever, and wheresover, unto my Executors here- 
n after named to be sold and disposed of by them or the survivors of them as 
they in their discretion shall see fit for the payment of my just debts and 
what soever of my said estate, real or personal, shall remain after payment of 
my just debts I give, devise and bequeath the same in manner following 
(that is to say). One-third part thereof unto my said wife Sarah, her heirs and 
assigns forever; one-third part thereof unto my said son James Hooper, his 
heirs and assigns forever, and the other remaining third part thereof unto my 
said daughter Isabella Hooper, her heirs and assigns forever; lastly I do 
hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Reynold Hooper and Richard Wilt- 
shire of the Island ot Barbados aforesaid, Esques, and John Murray of the 
City of New York, Esq., and my son James Hooper, Executors, and my said 
wife Sarah and my daughter Isabella Hooper, Executrixes of this my last will 
and testament (the said Reynold Hooper and Richard Wiltshire, Esqes, to 
act ct^ncerning luy affairs in Barbadoes only). And I do hereby revoke, 
disannul and make void all former and other wills by me at the time here- 
tofore made, ratifying, confirming and allowing this and no other to be my last 
will and testament. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty- 
seventh day of January, in the twelfth year of the reign of our now Sovereign 
Lord King George the Second, and in the year of our Lord Christ One thou- 
sand seven hundred and thirty-eight (1738). 

R. L. Hooper. Seal. 
Probated February 19, 1738-9. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 195 

one of the Council, as "A person who is truly affectionate 
to his Majesties Royal House, and in very great esteem and 
reputation in his country." 

On April 14, 1738, he was named as one of the 
CDuncil. 

He was warden of St. Andrews Church, Perth Amboy. 

He died in 1738-9. His will is dated January 27, 
1738, and proved February 19, 1738-9, 

His widow, Sarah, made a will in 1742, which was 
probated July 10, 1765. 

CIIILDREJf. 

1. Robert Leitice^, born in 1709; m. Christina^ Ebring- 

ton. 

2. James. 

3. Isabella. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

ROBERT LETTICE3 HOOPER [Robert Lettice^, 
Major Daniel'^'] (son of Chief Justice Robert Le ttice and 
Sarah Hooper), was born in 1709. He married Christina^ 
Ebrington [daughter of Francis^ and Christina* (R oetus) 
Ebrington. 

Onjanuary 30, 1734, "Robert Lettice Hooper, Jr., of 
Somerset County, in the Province of New Jersey, Gent, 
and Christina his wife, administrators of the estate of 
Francis Ebrington, late of Somerset County, aforesaid 
Gent, of the one part, etc.," deed a piece of land inherited 
from her father. 

In 1 749 there is a deed recorded from " Robert Lettice 
Hooper, of Rcckyhill, in the County of Somerset, Esq. 
and his wife, Christina, and Isabella Hooper." 

Robert Lettice^ Hooper lived in Philadelphia for a 
time. 

AUTHORITIES— New jersey Archives, Vol. 5, pp. 97, 134, 182; Vol. 6, p. 
109. Original documents in possession ot the New Jersey Histori- 
cal Society. 



196 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

On April i8, 1740, Robert Lettice Hooper was ap- 
pointed by Governor Lewis Morris to be one of three to 
enlist troops in Somerset County, New Jersey, the King 
having declared war against Spain. 

At a meeting of the Governor's Council held at Bur- 
lington, N. J., on the 28th of March, 1749, a proclama- 
fion was issued for a general feast, and they appointed the 
tollowing officers : Somerset County, Robert Lettice Hoo- 
per, Justice. 

" In May, 1759, Robert Lettice Hooper has laid out lots 
(60x161) for a town in Nottingham Township, beginning on 
the Delaware at Trenton Ferry, running as the road runs 
to the Grist Mills opposite Trenton, thence down the river 
to the ferry, being the head of navigation, where there is a 
considerable trade extending from the City of Philadelphia, 
and great parts of the counties of Hunterdon, Morris, Mid- 
dlesex, Somerset, and Buck, in Pennsylvania, deliver their 
produce, and rafts of timber, staves, etc., come from 120 
miles up the river." Which were offered for sale or on 
lease for sixty years. 

He had a commission as Assistant Quartermaster, New 
Jersey militia, in the Revolutionary War. He also held a 
commission as Commissary of Issues in the Commissary 
General's Department, New Jersey militia. 

He purchased property in Trenton, N. J., in 1751, 
and resided there in 1752. On July 12, 1782, he issued 
an "address to prevent trade with the enemy." 

He died in Trenton April 25, 1785, in his 77th year, 
and is buried in the Episcopal Church Cemetery at 
Trenton. 



The Parish Register of St Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, is at the bottom 
of the St. Lawrence River. At the outbreak of the Revolution the 
rector of St. Peters was a Tory, and went to Canada, taking the 
church records with him. In crossing the St. Lawrence River his 
boat capsized. He was drowned, and the records, of course, de- 
stroyed. 

AUTHORITY — Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War. 
Trenton, N. J. (1872), p. 842. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 197 

CHILDEEX. 

1. Robert Lettice*, born in 1730; was President of the 

Legislative Council in 1785. 

2. Isabella^, born in 1748; m. John^ Johnstone. 

3. Reginald. 

4. Jacob Roetus. 



EBRINGTON. 

FRANCIS' EBRINGTON, lived in Rocky Hill, 
Somerset County, New Jersey. 

He married Christina Roeters [daughter of Abraham 
Roeters]. 

His will is dated April 12, 1729, and probated October 
22, 1729. 

CHILD. 

Christina^, born in ; m. Robert Lettice^ Hooper. 

Will of Francis Ebrington. 

To all Christian People to whom these presents shall come Greeting, 
now you that I, Francis Ebrington, of the County of Somerset in the province 
of New Jersey, Gent., being in sound & mind and memory, do make this my 
last will & testament in manner and form following. That is to say : 

Item. I give and bequeath unto ray Sister Elizabeth Ebrington one 
Nagro Girl named Phillis and twenty pounds per annum money at eight shillings 
per ounce, to be paid to her or her order by my Executor or Executors here- 
inafter mentioned, that is to say, five pounds every three months during her 
natural life and no longer. 

Item. My will is that all my tract of land lying on Cranbery Creek and 
all my 'plantation and tract of land lying and being between Milston and 
Rockey Brooks be sold by ray Executor or Executors to pay my just debts as 
soon as possible. 

Item. I do hereby give, bequeath and devise all the rest ot my estate 
whatsoever and wheresoever unto my truly and well beloved wife, Christina 
Ebrington, and I do hereby make her my whole and sole executrix of this 
my last will and testament, and I do hereby revoke all former wills & testa- 
ments by me heretofore made. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day 
of August in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand seven hundred and 
twenty-nine and in the third year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord George 
the second, &c, King &c. 

Fran Ebrington. Seal. 



198 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

ROETERS. 

ABRAHAM! ROETERS (or Rutus) resided in Rocky 
Hill, Somerset County, New Jersey, 

He died in 1730. 

His will, written in Dutch, is dated April 15, 1730, emd 
probated January 16, 1730-1. 

CHILDREN. 

1. C/in'sZ/Jhi'^, born in ; m. Francis Ebrington. 

2. Susanna. 



GILBERT RL'GGLES & EVELINA CHRISTINA (SNYDER) 

TUCKER, 

AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 



TUCKER. 



(continued from page 29) 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

6. GILBERT RUGGLES« TUCKER {Charles^ Rcn- 
ben^, Mosl's^, Joseph-, Morris'^), [eldest son of Charles-^ 
and Welthe' (Ruggles) Tucker], was born in Digby, Nova 
Scotia, January 9, 1807. 

He resided for many years in Nova Scotia, engaged in 
merchandising among the French settlers, with whom he 
was intimately connected, and where he learned to speak 
the French language with fluency. He afterwards engaged 
as an importer of West India goods in Metaghan and 
Yarmouth, N. S., and St. John, N. B. 

He was married at Shelburne, N. S. , on Tuesday, 
V August 20, 1 83 1, by Rev. Thomas Rowland to Evelina 
Christina* Snydev {Willicnn Stringham^ , Williavi"- , Hen- 
drick'^) [daughter of William Stringham^ and Christina 
Rutus* (Johnstone) Snyder], who was born in Shelburne, 
N. S., July 8, 1809. ' 

Seeking a larger field of operations, in 1849 he 
removed with his family to Boston, Mass. There he 
engaged in the ship chandlery business at 6 Commercial 
Wharf in 185 i; 106 Commercial street in 1852; 232 Com- 
mercial street in 1853 and 1854; 5 I"clia Wharf in 1855. 
He resided in 1849 on Hancock street, Charlestown, Mass., 
and near Third and E street, South Boston, in 1S50-1. In 
1852 and 1853, at 29 Eutaw street. East Boston. In 1854 
and 1855, at No. 114 (now, 1902, known as No. 276), 
Meridian street, East Boston. While there his children 
attended the Chapman School on Eutaw street. 

He removed in 1855 to Winona, jNlinn., where he 
built a hotel known as the Johnstone House, which re- 
mained for many years one of the most popular hotels in 
Southern Minnesota. He also built and operated the 



202 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

Pleasant Valley Flour Mills, and for a period of years was 
most successful. 

He served as a Justice of the Peace continuously for 
many years. 

By this time age was beginning to make inroads upon 
his hitherto strong constitution, and he removed in 1870 
to Philadelphia, where his daughter, Mrs. Edmund Draper, 
was living. 

He was a kind, indulgent father, a loving husband, 
and his genial disposition made him many friends who 
delighted in his companionship. His life was one devoted 
to high ideals, and he left the world better for having 
lived. 

High in Masonry, he was virtually the founder of that 
order in Minnesota, and was always a trusted adviser 
in its councils. He was re-elected master of Winona 
Lodge No. 18 for many years until he refused the honor. 
He was beloved and honored by every member of the 
order, and on his departure for the East was the recipient 
of a Past Master's Jewel, which is highly prized by his 
children. In politics Mr. Tucker was a Democrat. 

He died at the residence of his daughter, 16 14 
Brown street, Philadelphia, January 30, 1875, and is buried 
in Philadelphia. His widow removed to St. Louis, Mo., 
and then to Chicago, surviving him seventeen years. 
She died at 171 Sacramento avenue, Chicago, September 
2, 1892, and is buried at Winona, Minn. 

\^ Mrs, Evelina Christina Tucker was in many respects a 

remarkable woman — firmness and decision of character, 
and a very warm, loving disposition made her greatly re- 
spected by all. In 1871 while visiting in Trenton, N. J., 
she met with an accident, which resulted in her being lamed 
for life. During the year 1892, she was stricken with la 
Grippe, and after many months of suffering passed away 
on the morning of September second. Her wish had been 
that she might be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona. 
Minn,, on the side of a bluff, overlooking the beautiful 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 203 

city and the placid waters of Lake Winona. She was 

laid to rest September fourth by her children and friends. 

She was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

CIIILDBEN. 

I. Charles William'', born July 20, 1832, at Metaghan, 
N. S.; died there April 11, 1842. 

7. 2. Ann Isabella, born June 12, 1834, at Metaghan, N. S. 

8. 3. Catherine Christina, born March 3, 1836; m. Edmund* 

Draper. 

9. 4. Welthe Ruggles, born January 20, 1838; m. Henry 

Harrison^ Holt. 

10. 5. William Stringham Snyder, born Oct. 31, 1839; m. 

Martha* Ann Nesbitt. 

11. 6, Gilbert Ruggles, born May 11, 1841. 

7. Charles James, born November 26, 1842, at Yar- 

mouth, N. S. Died there January i, 1843. 

8. Charles James, born February 28, 1844, at Yarmouth, 

N. S. Died November 7, 1846, at St. John, N. B. 

12. 9. Augustus Johnston, born January 5, 1848, at St. 

John, N. B.; m. (first), Lillian Bassett; (sec- 
ond), Alice M. Walsh. 



LAID TO REST. 

A pioneer of Winona returns to rest at her once loved 
home. 

"The funeral of Mrs. E. C. Tucker, a former well-known 
resident of Winona, took place from the Episcopal Church 
on Sunday, the Rev. Mr. Crittenden conducting the services. 
There was a large attendance of the early settlers who knew 
the deceased, besides members of the church, man)' of whom 
accompanied the remains to Woodlawn Cemetery, where kind 
friends had made every preparation for the reception of the 
bod3^ The pall bearers were Judge Mitchell, E. S. Mead, 
Mark Wilson, Samuel Melvin, E. D. Van Gorder and W. H. 
Yale, Mrs. Tucker, though many years absent from 
Winona, expressed a strong desire to be buried in Woodlawn, 
and her wish was carefully observed by her family, by whom 
she was much beloved. She was 84 years old at her death." 



204 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

The following notice appeared in the Chicago Herald : 

"Mrs. Evelina Christina Tucker died yesterday at 
her home, 171 Sacramento avenue, of paralysis of the nerve 
centers. Mrs. Tucker was well known on the West Side, 
where she had been engaged for a number of years in charit- 
able work. She was also well known in church circles, hav- 
ing been a prominent member of the Episcopal church. She 
was born July 8, i8og, in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and was 
married in 183 1 to Gilbert R. Tucker, of Nova Scotia, who 
died in Philadelphia in 1875. Since the death cf her husband 
Mrs. Tucker has lived in Chicago with her sons and daughters. 
The funeral will take place to-day from the family residence, 
thence by train to Winona, Minn." 

The following notice, written by Miss Lillian Bassett, 
appeared in the Chicago Inter Ocean, upon the occasion 
of the eightieth (80th) birthday of Mrs. E. C. Tucker : 



A TRIBUTE. 

"On Monday evening of this week a few of the friends 
of Mrs. E. C. Tucker repaired to her residence to extend 
their congratulations and good wishes on the attainment of 
her eightieth birthday. Eighty beautiful years. Lightly the}' 
rest on the silver-crowned brow of the dear old lady, whom 
to know is to love. Backward through the vista of long years 
her wistful gaze sees the companion of departed youth, the 
friends of mature years, those dearer and nearer, husband 
and children, long since lain to rest in the silent city of the 
dead, and now, surrounded by a devoted daughter, sons and 
loving friends, she awaits a blissful meeting with those gone 
before. 

"Merry faces gathered around the festive board and 
offered homage to the queen, whom all delighted to honor. 
Music and conversation filled the evening's enjoyment, and 
when at a late hour the last 'good night' was said, the v»'ish, 
that ever recurring anniversary might not be shadowed by any 
blighting care, and that God in his infinite mercy would 
grant her surcease of sorrow throughout her declining years, 
rested like a benediction upon her aged head." 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 



7. ANN ISABELLA'' TUCKER {Gilbert Rugglcs\ 
Charles^, Reuben*", AIoscs^ , Joseph^^ Morris'^^ [daughter 
of Gilbert Ruggles and Evelina Christina'' (Snyder) Tucker] 
was born in Metaghan, Nova Scotia, Jane 12, 1834, and 
baptized in Shelburne, N. S, , by Rev. Dr. Rowland. 

She attended school in Yarmouth, N. S., St. John, 
N. B., and graduated from Chapman School, East Boston. 

Her life has been devoted to the care of her mother. 
She is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
She now (1902) resides in Chicago. 



8. CATHERINE CHRISTINA^ TUCKER {Gilbert 
Ruggles^, Charles^, Reuben*^, Moses^, Joseph-, Morris^), 
[daughter of Gilbert Ruggles'' and Evelina Christina* (Sny- 
der) Tucker] was born in Metaghan, Nova Scotia, on 
IVTarch 3, 1836. She removed with her parents to East 
Boston, and thence to Winona, Minn., where, on March 
19, 1857, she married Edmund'* Draper {EdmumP, Jolin'^), 
[son of Edmund^ and Elizabeth (Anderson) Draper] who 
was born in Philadelphia November 26, 1835. They re- 
moved to Philadelphia where they resided for many years 
at 1 6 14 Brown Street. 

In 1 89 1 Mr. Draper and family removed to *' Locust 
Lawn," Middletown, Delaware, and thence to Wilmington, 
Delaware, where they now reside. 

He is a leading photographer of Philadelphia, 

CHIJ^DREX. 

I. Edmund**, born Dec. 26, 1862; died in Nov., I863. 

13. 2. William Ward, born August 20, 1864; m. Lillian 

Jeanette Clayton. 
3. Robert, born August 10, 1866. 

14. 4. May Evelina, born September 24, 1868; m. Harry 

Hamilton Bailey. 
*5« 5- John Edmund, born May 6, 1872; m. Mrs. Deimar 
(Bordley) Dyott. 



206 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

9. WELTHE RUGGLES^ TUCKER {Gilbert Rug- 
gU's^, Charles'^, Raiboi^, Moscs^, Joseph^, Morris^), 
[daughter of Gilbert Ruggles*^ and Evelina Christina* (Sny- 
der) Tucker] was born in Metaghan, Clare County, Nova 
Scotia, on the 20th day of January, 1838. She was 
educated in Boston, Mass. In 1855 she removed to 
Winona, Minn., with her father and his family, where she 
was engaged in teaching school. 

She was married May 16, 1864, at Winona, Minn., to 
Henry Harrison^ Holt [Ira^ , JouatJian^, Hiiiiiphrey'\ 
Hcnry'^, Nicholas'^) [son of Ira^ and Hannah (Robbins) 
Holt] who was born August 22, 1843, in Townsend, 
Mass. They have lived successively in Winona, Minn., 
Independence, Iowa, Kalama and Tacoma, Washington. 
They now reside at 313 North K street, Tacoma. Mr. Holt 
has an art and stationery store at 954 Pacific avenue. In 
school, church and temperance work she has always been 
a worker and a leader, 

She is a member of St. Luke's Memorial Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and an active worker in the Ladies Guild 
of that church, and for several years its Secretary. For 
many years she was a teacher in the Sunday School. During 
her ten years residence in Kalama she was an active worker 
in the mission church. 

She is a member of the literary society known as the 
Arequipa Club, and of the Mary Ball Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution. 

cniLDRKX. 

1. Grace Evelina**, born February i, 1865, at Independ- 

ence, Iowa; died October 22, 1869, at Winona. 

2. Marion Isabel, born Aug. 27, 1867, at Winona. 

16. 3. May Gertrude, born May 4, 1870, at Winona; m. 

William Henry Dickson. 

17. 4. Clark Morris, born July 30, 1873, at Kalama. 
5. Ira Gilbert, born May 4, 1877, at Kalama. 



THE TUCKER GENEAI.OC.Y. 207 

10. WILLIAM STRINGHAM SNYDER-! TUCKER, 

{Gilbert Ritg-gles^ , Charles^, RcJibcii^ , Moscs^ , Joseph'^, 
Morris'^), [son of Gilbert Ruggles*^ and Evelina Christina* 
(Snyder) Tucker] was born in Metaghan, Nova Scotia, on 
October 31, 1839. 

He removed to East Boston, Mass., with his parents 
and from there to Winona, Minn. Shortly after he re- 
moved to Indianapolis, Ind., where he was engaged in the 
retail clothing business at No. 3 Bates House, residing at 
No. 192 West Ohio street. He has been in the wholesale 
clothing business since 1869. He has resided at St. Joseph, 
St. Louis, Mo., and Chicago. 

On May 4, 1865, he was married by the Rev. Moses 
Smith to Martha Ann* Nesbitt {JoJin^ , Jacob" , lYathanicl^) 
[daughter of John^ and Julia Ann* (Moler) Nesbitt of 
Dayton, Ohio]. She was born at Xenia, Ohio, January 
27. 1843. 

He is a member of Montjoie Commandery No. 53 
Knights Templar, also of the Illinois Society of the Sons 
of the American Revolution. He resides at 757 West 
Adams street, Chicago. 

Mrs. Tucker is a member of the West End Woman's 
Club, Chicago, 

Episcopalian. Republican. 

CHILDREN. 

i8. I. Ida Nesbitt*, born February 4, 1866, at Indian- 
apolis; m. Seymour'' Morris. 

«9. 2. William Ruggles**, born April 25, 1872, at St. 
Louis, Mo.; m. Jessica Hibbard^ Talbot. 

20. 3. Martha Evelina^'', born June 20, 1877, at St. 
Louis, Mo.; m. Roger^ Sherman. 



208 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

11. GILBERT RUGGLES'' TUCKER {Gilbert Rug- 
gUs^, Charles^, Reuben'^, Moses^ , Joseph^, Morris^) 
[son of Gilbert Ruggles^ and Evelina Christina* (Snyder) 
Tucker] was born May ii, 1841, at Metaghan, N. S. 

He moved with his parents to East Boston, Mass., in 
1849, where he attended the Chapman School. 

In July, 1855, he removed with his parents to Winona,. 
I\Iinn., where he entered the State Normal School. 

He enlisted in Co. B, Hatch's Independent Battalion, 
Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry, and served three years in the 
vSioux War, from August i, 1863, to March i, 1866. He 
participated in the capture of Little Six and Medicine 
Bottle, two Sioux chiefs, who were afterwards hung; also 
in the capture of i 50 warriors in the battle at St. Joseph, 
North Dakota. He was promoted to Sergeant Major. 

In 1858 he founded Ihe Winona Library Association 
and was its first president. 

In J 864 he entered the law office of Mitchell & Norton, 
and was adnjitted to the bar in 1868. 

From 1869 to 1876 he resided in Philadelphia. Dur- 
ing a part of this time he was night editor of the Philadel- 
phia Enquirer and Commercial Editor of the Philadelphia 
Press. He removed to Missouri and was City Editor of the- 
St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette, 

He now (1902) resides in Chicago. 



12. AUGUSTUS JOHNSTON^ TUCKER {Gilbert Rug- 
gles^' , Charles'^ ^ Re?ibcii^, Moses'-'\ Joseph'^, Morris'^), 
[youngest son of Gilbert Ruggles*^ and Evelina Christina* 
(Snyder) Tucker], was born in St. John, New Brunswick, 
on January 5, 184^. 

With his parents he removed to East Boston, Mass., 

and Winona, Minn., and afterwards he removed to Chicago. 

On February 12, 1890, he was married at St. Alban's- 

Protestant Episcopal Church, Norwood Park, 111., (nov/ 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 209 

Chicago), by the Rev. Wilham Richmond, to LilHan C. 
Bassett [daughter of Hiram Bassett] who was born March 
30, 1852. She died November 7, 1890, at Clyde, Kansas, 
and is buried at Norwood Park, 111. 

On June 5, 1894, he was married (second) at Mil- 
waukee, Wis., to Alice M. Walsh [daughter of William 
and Mary Walsh] who was born January 4, 1868, at Dub- 
lin, Ireland. 

Mr. Tucker died at his residence, 204 Colorado Avenue, 
Chicago, on December 5, 1901, and was buried the Sunday 
following at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago. 



EIGHTH GENERATION, 



13. WILLIAM WARD* DRAPER {EdmundK Ed- 
mund^, John'^) [son of Edmund^ and Catherine Christina'' 
(Tucker) Draper] was born August 20, 1864, at Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

On May 3, 1899, he was married at W^ilmington, 
Del., to Lillian Jeanette Clayton [daughter of Richard 
and Clara (Cann) Clayton] who was born November 7, 
1873, near Middletown, Delaware. 

Mr. Draper is with the Adams Express Company at 
Wilmington, Del. They reside in Wilmington. 



14. MAY EVELINA* DRAPER {Edmund^, EdviinuP, 
/ohu'^), [daughter of Edmund^ and Catherine Christina'' 
(Tucker) Draper] was born at No, 16 14 Brown street, 
Philadelphia, Pa., on September 24, 1868. She was bap- 
tized Sunday, January 19, 1895, by Rev. Dr. Sylvester, 
Rector of the Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia, and 
confirmed in the same church by Bishop Whitehead of 
Pittsburgh. 

She was married by Rev. Dr. Robert Edwards, 
Rector of St. Mathias' Church, on January 7, 1891, at 1614 
Brown street, Philadelphia, to Harr}' Hamilton Bailey [son 
of Josiah Franklin and Mary (Bradley) Bailey]. He was 
born in Washington, D. C. , June 7, 1868. 

She is a member of the Caesar Rodney Chapter, 
Daughters of the American Revolution, of Wilmington, 
Del. Residence, W^ilmington, Del. 



212 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

15. JOHN EDMUND* DRAPER (£.//«/^;/./3^ Edmund^, 
Jflhii^), [son of Edmund^ and Catherine Christina'' (Tucker] 
Draper] was born Ma}' 6, 1872, at 16 14 Brown Street, in 
Philadelphia. 

On Thursday, September 22, 1898, he was married 
at Chestertown, Maryland, to Mrs. Delmar (Bordley) 
Dyott "■ [daughter of John and Isabel (Tomlinson) Bordley] 
who was born February 4, 1863, at Chestertown, Md. 

Mr, Draper is in the railway' mail service and resides 
in Baltimore, Maryland. 



16. MAY GERTRUDE^ HOLT {Henry Harrison\ 
Ira^ , Jonathan'^, HiLmphrey'^ , Henry- ^ Nicholas'^) [daugh- 
ter of Henry Harrison" and Welthe Ruggles"" (Tucker) 
Holt] was born May 4, 1870, in Winona, Minn. 

On June 7, 1S98, she was married at 612 South 
Tacoma Avenue, Tacoma, Wash., by Rev. F. H. Church 
to William Henry Dickson [son of John and Eliza (Mc- 
Creary) Dickson] who was born November 20, 1859, in 
Adjala Township, County of Siairo, Ontario, Canada. 

He is a member of the firm of Dickson Bros., dealers 
in clothing and gents' furnishing goods, Tacoma, Wash. 
Residence, 306 South Tacoma Ave., Tacoma, Wash. 



17. CLARK MORRIS^ HOLT {Hejiry Harriso7i\ Tra^ , 
Jojiaihan*', Humphrey'^, Henry - , Nicholas'^), [eldest son 
of Henry Harrison^ and Welthe Ruggles'' (Tucker) Holt] 
was born July 30, 1873, in Kalama, Washington. He was 
baptized in September, 1873, by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin 
Wistar Morris. 

' ' He was an exceptionally jovial and companionable 
young man and popular among his acquaintances on ac- 
count of his sterling qualities." 

•Mrs. Delmar (Bordley) D^'ott was married (first) on January 24, 
1883, at Chestertown, Md., to Clarence Dyott [son of William 
Henry and Deborah (Trew) Dyott] who was born Septemlier 21. 
ISG*), in Queen Anne County, Md. He died October 21, 1895, at 
Chestertown, Md. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 213 

For several years he was associated with his father in 
business, but later entered the employ of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad. 

During the winter of iSpy-'pS he secured a position 
with the Wallace Tramway Company at Dyea, Alaska. 
While in their employ he lost his life in an avalanche of 
snow in the Chilkoot Pass, Alaska, on April 3, 1898. 

The funeral was held in St. Luke's Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, Tacoma, on April 12, 189S, and burial at 
the Tacoma Cemetery. 



18. IDA NESBITT« TUCKER {VVilliam S.\ Gilbert 
R.^ , Charles^, Reuben^, Capt. Afoses^ , Joseph'^ ^ Morris^), 
[eldest daughter of William Stringham Snyder^ and Martha 
Ann* (Nesbitt) Tucker] was born at No. 192 West Ohio 
Street, Indianapolis, Ind., Sunday, February 4, 1866. She 
was baptized Wednesday, June 27, 1866, in Christ Protest- 
ant Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, Ind., by the Rev. 
J. P. T. Ingraham. 

She graduated from the Chicago West Division High 
School June 20, 1885. 

In 1897 she compiled and published a "History and 
Genealogy of the Class of 1885 of the Chicago West 
Division High School." These books were presented to 
members of the class by Mrs. Morris at the tenth annual 
reunion. 

On Wednesday afternoon, January 18, 1888, she was 
married by the Rev. Abbott Eliot Kittredge, D. D.,-' at 
No. 757 West Adams Street, Chicago, to Tyler Seymour'' 
Morris {Joseph'', Ephrahrr' , Isaac^^ Edivard^ , Edivard^ 
Edward'')^ [youngest son of Joseph'' and Clara Elizabeth'' 



Pastor of the Madison Avenue Reformed Church of New York City, 
and formerly pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Chicago. 



2 14 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

(Seymour) Morris] who was born at 4 West Bridge Street, 
Utica, N. Y., Sunday, February 15, 1S63. 

He graduated from the Chicago High School June 25, 
1880. 

He is a hfe member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society of Boston; a life member and founder 
of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois; a 
member of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution; the American Historical Association; the Ken- 
wood Club of Chicago, and the Glen View Club. 

She is a life member and was for two years Recording 
Secretary of the Chicago Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri- 
can Revolution; a member of the Society of Mayflower 
Descendants in the State of New York; the founder and 
Secretary of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the 
State of Illinois; a member of the Arche Club of Chi- 
cago; also the Mary Washington Memorial Association. 

Mr. Morris is in the real estate and renting business at 
142 La Salle Street, Chicago. Residence, 5342 Wash- 
ington Avenue, Chicago. 

Congregationalist. Republican. 

I. Seymour Tucker^ Morris, born November 28, 1890, at 
934 West Monroe Street, Chicago; baptized there 
March 15, 1891, by Rev. A. E. Kittredge, D, D. 



Mr. Morris has edited or compiled the following publications : 

Constitution, Bv-La\vs and Catalotrue of the Library Association of the 

Third Presbyterian Church, 1884; 120 pages. 
The Morris Genealogy, 1894; 208 paa;es. 

The History and By-Laws Chicago Continental Guard, 1895; 24 pages. 
The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois, year book, 1895, 

64 pages; 1896, 170 pages; 1897, 162 pages; 1900, 312 pages. 
A List of Genealogies Now being Compiled : 1896, 26 pages. 
The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois, year 

book for 1900; 174 pages. 
The Otis (Genealogy, 1900; 200 pages. 
The Tucker Genealogy, 1902; 270 pages. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 215 

19. WILLIAM RUGGLES^ TUCKER (lVi7/mm S.\ 
Gilbert R.^ , Charles'", Reziben^, Moses^, Joseph^, Morris ') 
was born April 25, 1872, at 3102 Lucas Avenue. St. Louis, 
Mo. He was baptized there by the Rev. J. P, T, Ingraham. 
On Tuesday evening, April 30, 1901, he was married 
at the Third Presbyterian Church, Chicago, by the Rev. 
William J. McCaughan, to Jessica Hibbard^ Talbot {/oel 
Frauds'^, Henry Alvin^, Joel^ , Ebenczer^, Ebenezer^ , 
George^, Peter'^) [daughter of Joel Francis'' and Ella 
Elizabeth^ (Hibbard) Talbot] who vv'as born July 19, 1877, 
in St. Louis, Missouri. 

She graduated from St. Margaret's School June 13, 1896. 

Mrs. Tucker is a member of The Matheon Club, and 
of the Chicago Chapter Daughters of the Am.erican Revo- 
lution. 

He is a member of the Illinois Society of the Sons of 
the American Revolution; one of the founders and a life 
member of the Society of Colonial Wars in Illinois; a 
member of the Illinois Club, and the Glen View Club, 

He is President of the W. R. Tucker Lumber Com- 
pany, wholesale lumber, 135 Adams Street, Chicago. 
Residence, 699 Washington Boulevard, Chicago. 

Presbyterian. Republican. 



20, MARTHA EVELINA^ TUCKER {V/illiam S.\ 
Gilbprt R.^, Charles^, Retihe7i^ , Captain Moses^ , Joseph'^ , 
Morris^), was born June 20, 1877, at 2909 Dickson Street, 
St. Louis, Mo. 

She was baptized December 18, 1877, by the Rev. J. 
P. T. Ingraham of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, 
St. Louis. She graduated from the Brooks School, Chi- 
cago, in June, i8*?6. 

She is a member of the Church of the Epiphany, 
Chicago; a member of the Matheon Club, also the Chicago 
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. 



216 THE TI'CKER GENEALOGY. 

On Monday evening, June 9, 1902, she was married at 
the Church of Epiphany, Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, by 
Rev. John Henry Hopkins, to Roger" Sherman {James 
Aloj-gaii^, James Taylor'', Charles'", Lieut. Jolui^, Hon. 
Roger*, William'^, Joseph-, Capt. John'^), [son of James 
Morgan^'' and Mary Eliza''* (French) Sherman] who was 
born at 165 Park Avenue, Chicago, March 18, 1877. f^e 
was baptized Jaimary 3, 1892, by Rev. Frederick A. Noble. 

He is a member of the Union Park Congregational 
Church, Chicago; Secretary of the Society of Colonial 
Wars in the State of Illinois, and a member of the Order 
of Founders and Patriots of America in the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Sherman is in the real estate and insurance busi- 
ness at 152 La Salle Street, Chicago. Residence No. 757 
West Adams Street, Chicago. 

Congregation alist. Republican. 



ANCESTORS 

OF THE FAMIIIES 
INTO WHICH THE DESCENDANTS OF 

GILBHRT RUGGLES TUCKER 

MARRIED 



^.r: 



ANCESTRY OF 

HENRY HARRISON HOLT, 

(see page 206) 

FIRST GENERATION. 

NICHOLAS' HOLT came from England about the 
year 1635 in the ship " James of London," and settled in 
Newbury, Mass. He was married in England to Eliza- 
beth . She died November 9, 1656. 

He removed to Andover, Mass., in 164 1-4. 

He was married (second) June 20, 1658, to Hannah 
Bradstreet (widow of Daniel Rolfe and daughter of 
Humphrey Bradstreet). She died June 20, 1665. 

He married (third) Mrs. Martha Preston May 21, 
1666. She died March 21, 1703, aged 80 years. 

On May 17, 1637, he took the oath of freeman. He 
took an active interest in the public affairs of the town, and 
was one of the original members of the Andover Church. 
He died January 30, 1685, aged 83 years. 



9- 
10. 



CHriiDREN— FIHST MABBIAGB. 

Hannah', born in England. 

Elizabeth, born at Newbury, Mass., March 30, 1636. 
Mary, born at Newbury, Mass., October 6, 1638. 
Samuel, born at Newbury, Mass., October 6, 1641. 
Henry, born at Andover in 1644; m. Sarah^ Ballard. 
Nicholas, Jr., born at Andover in 1647. 
James, born at Andover, Mass., in 1651. 
Priscilla, born at Andover June 20, 1653. 

CHIIiDKEN— 8KCOND MARBIAGB. 

Rebecca, born at Andover, November 14, 1662. 
John, born at Andover January 14, I663-4. 



220 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

HENRY^ HOLT {Nicholas^) [son of Nicholas^ and 
Elizabeth Holt] was born in Andover, Mass., in 1644. 

He was married February 24, 1669, to Sarah" Ballard 
(daughter of William and Grace Ballard). They united 
with the Andover Church June 3, 17 16. He was a promi- 
nent man in the town, and his name is frequently found on 
committees. In 1686 he received permission to erect a 
mill on Ladle Brook. His father deeded him a portion of 
his estate in 1681. 

She died in Andover November 25, 1733. He died 
January 17, 17 19, aged 75. 

CHILiDBEN— BOHN in andoa'kh. 

1. Elizabeth^, born December 29, 1670. 

2. Oliver, born January 14, 1672. 

3. Henry, born January 24, 1673. 

4. James, born September 3, 1675. 

5. George, born March 17, 1677. 

6. Sarah, born August 17, 1678. 

7. Josiah, born December 13, 1679. 

8. Dinah, born May 23, 1681. 

9. Paul, born February 7, 1684 

10. William, born February 3, 1687. 

11. Zerviah, born March 24, 1689. 

12. Keturah, born December 15, 1690. 

13. Humf>hrey"' , born Sept. 22, 1693; m. Abigail . 

14. Benjamin, born July 8, i6g6. 

WILLIAMi BALLARD \v;is born about 1617 in England. lie came to 
America in the "Mar}' and John " in March, 1633-4, 

In 164.S he settled in Newbury, Ma.ss. He married Grace . 

In 16.S3 lie removed to Andover. 

He died in Andover, Mass., July 10, 1689. His widow died April, 27, 1694. 

Inventory oi his estate taken October 23, 1689. 

CIUl.OREN. 

Joseph, born in 1644; Elizabelh, born in 1616; WUli.am, born in 164S; Mary, born in 
16.S0; Sarah, l)orn in 1652, in. Henry^ Holt; Joliti, born January 17, 1653-4; Hannah, born 
August 14, 1655; Lydia, born April 13, 1657; Abigail, born . 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 



THIRD GENERATION. 

HUMPHREY^^ HOLT {Hairy\ Nicholas^), [son of 
Henry ^ and Sarah- (Ballard) Holt] was born in Andover 
September 22, 1693. 

He was married about 17 16 to Abigail . 

She died April 15, 1808. He died August 8, 1754, 
aged 61 years. 



CIIILiDREN— BOKN IN ANDOVER, MASS. 

Fifield^, born July 28, 1717. 
Anna. 

Sarah, born April 27, 1719. 
Humphrey, born in 1721. 

Jonathati'^, b. in 1728; m, Azuba" (Butterfield) Searle. 
Shuabel, born March 21, 1729. 
William. 
Mehitable. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

JONATHAN*, HOLT {Humphrey^, Henry\ Nich- 
olas^), [son of Humphrey and Abigail Holt] was born in 
Andover in 1728. 

He was married February 25, 1752, to Rachel Taylor, 
who died April 21, 1753. He married (second) November 14, 
1753, Susannah Holt, and (third) January 13, 1802. Mrs. 
Azuba*^ (Butterfield) Searle {Elcascr^^ Joseph^, Joseph'\ 
Joseph", Benjamin'^), [daughter of Eleazer" and Mary 
(Wright) Butterfield]. She married (first) on May 7, 1789, 
at Townsend, Mass., Robert Searle. 

She was born at Townsend, Mass., November 13, 
1767, and after the death of her husband, which occurred 
March 18, 1805, at Lunenburg, she married (third) Decem- 
ber 22, 1 8 14, Woodis Lee. 

She died at Fitchburg, January 24, 1852, aged 85. 

CIIII^D— FIBST MAKBIAOK. 

I. Rachel*, born April 20, 1753, at Lunenburg. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



2 
3 

4 

5 
6 

7 

8 

9 

lO. 

II. 



CHILDREN— SECOXD MAHRIAGn. 

Jonathan*, born May i6, 1756, at Lunenburg. 
Susannah, born May 29, 1758, at Lunenburg. 
EHjah, born October 23, 1759, at Lunenburg. 
William, born April 11, 1761, at Lunenburg. 
James, born May 2, 1764, at Lunenburg. 
Abigail, born May 2, 1766, at Fitchburg. 
Rhoda, born February 23, 176S, at Fitchburg. 
Amasa, born October 7, 1769, at Fitchburg. 

CHILDBEX— THIBD MAKKIAGE. 

Roxanna^, born July 10, 1802. 

Ira, born March 21, 1805; m. Hannah Robbins. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

IRA« HOLT {Jonathan^ Humphrey^, Henry^, Nich- 
olas'^), [son of Jonathan* and Azuba*^ (Butterfield) Holt] 
was born at Lunenburg March 21, 1805. 

He married May 13, 1827, Hannah Robbins, daughter 
of Abram and Hannah Robbins. 

He was a tinner and a stove dealer at Lunenburg. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Almira^, born at New Ipswich November ig, 1829. 

2. Sarah Maria, born at New Ipswich April 22, 1832. 

3. Martha Ann, born at Hillsborough April 30, 1837. 

4. Henry Harrison^ , born at Townsend August 22, 

1843; m. Welthe Ruggles'' Tucker. 



AUTHORITY— Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg, Mass., Vol. 2, p. 315. 



ANCESTRY OF 
MARTHA ANN NESBITT. 

(see page 207) 

FIRST GENERATION. 

NATHANIELi NESBITT was born June i6, 1725. 
His name first appears of record in Lancaster, Pa. 

He was married on November 18, 1761, at St. James' 
Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa. , by Rev. 
Thomas Barton, to Frene (or Fanny) Whitmer [daughter 
of Michael and Barbara Whitmer] who was born August 

31, 1743. 

Nathaniel Nesbitt and his wife removed to Clearspring, 
Washington County, Md. 

He died July 20, 1807. His will is dated April 13, 
1805, and probated September 10, 1807. 



CHILiDREN— BOKir AT CI.BARSPRINO, MD. 

John^, born September 28, 1762. 

Anne, born March 5, 1764. 

Catherine, born August 9, 1765. 

Nathaniel, born December 9, 1767. 

Jonathan, born March 5, 1770. 

Jacob^ , born June I, 1771; m. Catherine Tyler in 1800 

Mary, born February 24, 1775. 

Peter, born April 15, 1777. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

JACOB 2 NESBITT [son of Nathaniel^ and Frene 
(Whitmer) Nesbitt] was born in Clearspring, Washington 
County, Md., June i, 1771. 

He was married at Hagerstown, Md. , in 1800. to 
Catherine Tyler. 

The family Bible of Nathaniel^ Nesbitt containing the vital records of 
his family, is now (1902) in the possession of his descendant, .Mrs. 
Daniel G. Martin, Xenia, Ohio. 



224 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

He settled on a farm near Xenia, Ohio, at a place 
called Beaver Creek. He sold the farm and went to Xenia 
and resided with his son Nathan, where his wife died. 
He then moved to Kenton, Ohio, and made his home 
with his daughter, Mrs. King, and there he died. Both 
were buried in Xenia. One of their children was buried 
on the old farm. 

She died in July, 1849, at Xenia, Ohio. He died at 
Kenton, Ohio, in August, 1856. 

CHI LDEKN — BORN IN CI.EAHSPHING, MB. 

I Peter^, born February 13, 1801; drowned in the Big 
Miami River in the fall of 1813. 

2. Nancy, born September 30, 1802; died in Februarj', 

1837. Married (first) Martin Frcyberger; (sec- 
ond), Rev. John Carrick. 

3. Jacob, born October 30, 1803; died young. 

4. Samuel, born March 24, 1805; died August 18, 1828, 

at Xenia, Ohio. 

5. Catherine, born February 25, 1807; m. (first) Feb- 

ruary 16, 1832, at Xenia, Ohio, Smith Persinger. 
He died Janua.ry 22, 1843, at Xenia, Ohio. July 
17, 1856, she was married (second) to Jacob 
Wilson at Xenia. He died February 15, 1859. 
She died in Xenia November g, 1893. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Jacob'', born February 29, 1S40. 

2. Sarah E. 

3. Nannie C. ; m. D. G. Martin. 

6. Nathan, born July 28, 1809; m. March 24, 1836, 

Clarissa C. Bretney. He died in November, 1879. 
She was born Dec. 9, 1815; died Nov. 10, 1879. 

CHn.l)RKN. 

1. William Tobias*, born March 11, 1838; died in 1839. 

2. Rebecca, born October 2, l.SS'J; m. Samuel A. Brewster. 

3. Anna, born February 22, 1K41 ; m. John Watson Mason. 

4. Jane, born Ar.gust 12, 1.S43; died luue 21, ISSO. 

5. Jacob, born lanuary 20, 1S44; died March 7. 1S45. 

6. Clara, born March 24, 1S47: died June 8, 1SS3. 

7. Sarah, born January 31, 1849; m. Jcdin M. Murray. 

8. Mary Kliza, born October 29, 1S51; died May 30, 1853. 

9. John, born July 26. 1853; died July 12, 1891; m. Anna E. Stine. 

7. John'^ , born July 23, 181 1; m. May i6, 1839, at 

Xenia, to Julia Ann' Moler. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 225 

8. Benoni, born October i8, 1812; m. at Xenia Januar}- 

16, 1839, to Rachal Madden Crosby, wlio was born 
August 13, 1815. She died November 21, 1883, 
at Xenia. 

CHILDREN. 

1. William Burke', born November 12, 1839. 

2. John Albert, born Aufifust 6, 18+1; die:! Mav 21. 1893. 

3. Charles Jacob, born M.iy j5, 18J+; die:i May 10, 1SS2. 

4. Edward Clinton, born March 5, 1S;S; died March IS, 18S9. 

5. Fannie Dora, boru January 7, 1853; died September (>, 1885. 

6. Walter Leigh, born July 13, 1S5S. 

9. Mary, born December 29, 1814, at Xenia; m. March 

3, 1836, at Xenia to Walter King, who was born 
in April, 1804. He died April 5, 1881, at Kenton, 
Ohio. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Ann EliKabeth'', born November 14, 1836; m. John A. Rogers. 

2. Josephine; died March 6, 1899, 

3. Sallie Katherine. 

lo. Elizabeth, born January 22, 181 7, at Xenia, Ohio; 
m. (first) in 1851 Andrew Lilford; m. (second) in 
July, 1857, at Kenton, to William Ballentine. He 
died in August, 1883, at Kenton. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

JOHN'' NESBITT {Jacob\ Nathaniel'), [son of 
Jacob^ and Catherine (Tyler) Nesbitt] was born July 23, 
181 I, in Clearspring, Md. 

He was married by Rev. Michael Marley May 16, 1839, 
to Julia Ann* Moler {Vatidiver Banks'^ , Adam^ , Adam')^ 
[daughter of Vandiver Banks^ and Elizabeth^ (Hull) MolerJ 
who was born in Dayton, Ohio, July 18, 1821. 

He was a farmer, and purchased part of his father's 
Beaver Creek farm, near Xenia, Ohio, where he resided. 

He died September 24, 1843, and was buried in 
Dayton. 

Whig. Methodist. 



226 THE TUCKER GENEALOGV 

CIIIL,DREX. 

1. James Finley*, born March 21, 1S40, at Xenia, Ohio; 

married December 31, 1S63, at Dayton, Ohio, to 
Kate Heford, who was born December 25, 1844. 

Cnil-DHHN. 

1. John Elmers, born October 29, 1868. 

2. James Chester'', born July 26, 1S33. 

2. Martha Ann'*, born January 27, 1843, at Xenia, 

Ohio; m. William S. S.'' Tucker. 

Mrs. Julia Ann* (Moler) Nesbitt married (second) 
about 1884 Joseph Austin at Dayton, Ohio. 

CHILDREN— SECOND mabbiagr. 

3. Laura Austin, born November i, 1853; m. (first), 

December 16, 1874, Henry L. Rowell; (second), 
Alexander B. Brundrette. 

4. Emma Austin, born November 23, 1S55; m. February 

II, 1875, George E. Ebbert. 



MOLER. 



FIRST GENERATION. 



ADAM* MOLER (or Mohler) and two brothers emi- 
j^j^rated from Germany to America long before the Revolu- 
tionary War, and settled in New Jersey. They removed 
to the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pa. 

He removed to a place near Harper's Ferry, Va. , 
taking up a large tract of land on each side of the Potomac 
I^iver. 

His will is dated November 9, 1783, and proved 
November 18, 1783, in Berkeley County, Va. , (now West 
Virginia). 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 227 





CHILDRroN. 


I. 


Adatn^, born in 1759; m. Mary^ Banks 


2. 


John. 


3- 


Frederic. 


4- 


Mary. 


5. 


Elizabeth. 


6. 


Jacob. 


7- 


Casper. 


8. 


Henry. 


9- 


Michael. 


10. 


Anne. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

ADAM 2 MOLER (a son of Adam' Moler), was born 
in Virginia in 1759. 

He was married May 25, 1790, to Mary® Banks 
(daughter of John' and Rachel Banks), who was bora near 
Harper's Ferry, Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), 
on February 26, 1769. 

He died August 26, 1830. She died in 18 19. 

His will is dated August 17, 1822, and probated 
September 20, 1830. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John^, born November 7, 1790. 

2. Ann, born March 2, 1792. 

3. Clement, born December 30, 1793. 

4. Ruhama, born March 29, 1796. 

5. Vandiver Banks'^ , born December 13, 1797; m. Eliza- 

beth2 Hull. 

6. George Washington, born February 22, 1800. 

7. Adam, born June 19, 1802. 

8. Samuel, born July 13, 1805. 

9. Jacob, born October 27, 1806. 

10. Raleigh, born November i, 1807. 

11. Roda, born March i, 1811. 

12. Julia Ann, born December 20, 181 3. 



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THIRD GENERATION. 



VANDIVER BANKS^ MOLER {Adam^, Adam'), 
[son of Adani^ and Mary^ (Banks) Moler] was born in 
Harper's Ferry, W. Va., on December 13, 1797. 

He was married at Harper's Ferry on February 2, 
1819, to Elizabeth Hull [a daughter of Peter and Catherine 
Hull]. She was born March 31, 1787, at Greencastle, 
Pa., and died in Dayton, Ohio, September 9, 1877. 

He was a farmer, and blacksmith by trade. He 
bought a farm of sixty acres near Shakerstown, seven miles 
from Dayton, where he resided and Julia Ann^ was born. 
Then he bought 160 acres lying part in Green and part in 
Montgomery counties, Ohio, also about seven miles from 
Dayton. 

He built a church on his farm, and gave the material 
for erecting the structure, and after morning service he 
used to invite the entire congregation into his farm house to 
dinner, afterwards they had afternoon service. 

lie would sharpen plows and shoe his neighbors' horses 
while they in return did his work in the field. 

Then he removed to a stone cottage on Second 
street, in Dayton, where his wife died 

He rented and then sold his house and furniture, and 
resided with his daughter, Mrs. Freeman, for seven years, 
after which he resided with his youngest daughter, Mrs. 
Kennedy, at Tippecanoe City, Ohio, where he died June 13, 
1894, aged 97 years. 

Mr. Moler and his wife are buried in Woodlawn 
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. 

CHILDKEN— BOKN NKAH DATTON, OBIU. 

I. Adam*, born October 24, iBig. 



Ju.'ia Ann*, born July 18, 1821; m. John'^ Nesbitt. 

David*, born April 27, 1823. 

Ruhama, born November 11, 1825. 

John, born Deceml:)er i, 1827. 

Sarah Elizabeth, born June 29, 1829. 

Elizabeth, born December 6, 1830. 



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WHITMER. 

MICHAEL WHITMER (or Witmer), a native of the 
Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, with three brothers — 
Ubrich, Peter and John — came to America in August, 
1733, in the ship "Hope of London,'' Daniel Reed, 
jMaster. 

They arrived in Philadelphia and took the oath of 
abjuration and that of allegiance to the British crown. 

Michael Whitmer removed to Manor Township, Lan- 
caster County, Pa., where he died in the spring of 1763, 
leaving a widow, Barbara. 

His will was dated April 23, 1763; proved May 9, 1763, 
in Lancaster County, Pa. 

CHILDRUX— FIRST MABRIAGK. 

1. Anna. 

2. Magdalen. 

3. Barbara. 

BBCOND MARBIAGB. 

4. John. 

5. Elizabeth. 

6. Maria. 

7. Catharina. 

8. Frena^, born Aug. 31, 1743; m. NathaaieP Nesbitt. 



HULL. 

PETER HULL was a farmer and lived three miles 
south of Greencastle, Pa. 

He married Catherine . 

He removed to Shepherdstown, Va. , and died Feb- 
ruary 27, 1825, at Harper's Ferry, Va. 

William Phelan was appointed Administrator. 

AUTHORITIES — History of Lebanon County, Pa., page 256. 
Record from 1763 to 1767, Orphan's Court, page 98. 
Lebanon County was originally part of Lancaster County until 1813. 
Dauphin County was taken from Lancaster County in 1785. 



230 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



CHILDREN. 

1. Elizabeth'^, born Aug. 17, 1787; m. Vandiver BJMoler. 

2. Sally; m. Miller. 

3. Eva; m, (first), — Phelan; (second), — Harshman. 

4. Catharine; m. Killinger. 

5. John; m. Mary John. 



BANKS. 

JOHN^ BANKS was a farmer and resided in Jefferson 
County, Virginia. 

His will was dated February 20, 1818, and proved 
December 25, 1820. 



CHILDREN. 

Vandiver. 

John. 

Samuel. 

Mary'^ , born February 26, 1769; m. Adam^ Moler. 

Amelia. 

Ruhama; m. Landess. 

Clement. 



ANCESTRY OF 
WILLIAM HENRY DICKSON. 

(see page 213) 
FIRST GENERATION. 

JOHN» DICKSON (son of John Dickson), was born 
in Ireland. 

He was married March 9, 1847, in Albany, N. Y., to 
Eliza McCreary, [daughter of David and Eleanor (Pierson) 
McCreary]. 

She was born August 26, 1826, in Troy, N. Y. 

He died in 1867 in Adjala Township, Simco County, 
Ontario, 

CHILDREN. 



6. 



David Frederick^. 

George Leslie. 

Mary. 

John Milton. 

William Henry'^ , born November 20, 1859; m. (first), 

Laura Ann Jones; m. (second), May Gertrude'' 

Holt. 
Warren Pearson. 



David McCreary [son of WilHam and Elizabeth (Connolly) McCreary 

was born in March, 1792, at Port Norris, County Armaugh 
Ireland. 

He was married in November, 1818, at Drumhillery, County Armaugh, 

Ireland, to Eleanor Pierson [daughter of David and Catherine 

(Cunningham) Pierson] who was born March 26, 1794, at Newry, 
County Armaugh, Ireland. 



^02 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

WILLIAM HENRY' DICKSON [son of John^ and 
Eliza (McCreary) Dickson] was born November 20, 1859. 
in Adjala Township, County of Sinico, Ontario. 

He was married (first) in August, i88[, at Santa 
Rosa, Cal., to Laura Ann Jones [daug-hter of David and 
Sarah (Shorthouse) Jones] who was born April 9, 1862, 
in Pembroke, Maine. She died on April 19, 1896, at 
Tacoma, Wash. 

He was married (second) at Tacoma, Wash, June 7, 
1898, to May Gertrude'' Holt [daughter of Henry Harrison'^ 
and Welthe Ruggles'' (Tucker) Holt] who was born May 
4, 1870, in Winona, Minn. 

CIIILDREX— FIRST MARKIAGR. 

1. William Leslie^, born October 20, 1882, at Sacra- 

mento, Cal.; died Feb. 18, igoo, at Tacoma, 

2. Ethel, born Sept. 12, 1884, at Tacoma, Wash. 

3. Moncrief, born June 23, 1886, at Tacoma, Wash. 

4. Hazel, born Feb. 7, 1891, at Tacoma, Wash. 

5. Laura, born April 18, 1896, at Tacoma. Wash. 



ANCESTRY OF 
TYLBR SEYMOUR MORRIS. 

(SEE PAGE 213) 
FIRST GENERATION. 

LIEUT. EDWARD! MORRIS, [son of Thomas and 
Grissie (Hewsome) Morris, was born in Nazing, Waltham 
Holy Cross Abbey, Essex County, England, in Aug., 1630. 

He came to America about 1638 and settled in Rox- 
bury, Mass. 

He was married to Grace Bett on September 20, 1655, 
by Richard Bellingham, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts 
Bay Colony. 

In 1686 he removed to Woodstock, Conn., of which 
place he was one of the founders, and its first military 
officer. 

He died September 14, 1689 or 1690, at Woodstock, 
Conn. She died at Roxbury June 6, 1705. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Isaac^, born Sept. 16, 1656; baptized Sept. ig, 165S. 

2. Edward'^, born in March, 1658-g; baptized March 

13) 1659; m. Elizabeth'' Bowen. 

3. Grace, born Feb. 7, 1660; baptized Feb. 17, 1660. 

4. Ebenezer, born April 14, 1664; bap. April 17, 1664. 

5. Elizabeth, born in March, 1666; bap. March 25, i65 6. 

6. Margaret, born Sept. 25, 1668; bap. Sept. 27, 1668. 

7. Samuel, born March ig, 1670; bap. April 19, 1670. 

8. Martha, born Nov. 30, 1674; baptized Jan. 3, 1674-5. 

For a more complete record of the Morris family, see the Morris 
Genealogy published (1894) by the compiler of tiiis work. 



234 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

DEACON EDWARD 2 MORRIS [son of Lieut. 
Edward^ and Grace (Bett) Morris] was born in Roxbury, 
Mass., in March, 1658-9. 

He was married on the 24th day of May, 1683, to 
Ehzabeth^ Bowen, [daughter of Lieut. Henry^ and Eliza- 
beth^ (Johnson) Bowen] who was born h\ Roxbury, Mass., 
January 26, 1 660-1. 

He removed to Woodstock about 1 690-2. 

He died in Woodstock, Conn., August 29, 1727, aged 
69 years. She died in Woodstock November 20, 1743, 
aged 83 years. 

CilfLDKEX. 

1. Elizabeth', born February 12, 1684. 

2. Elizabeth, born February 9, 1686. 

3. Edward^, born Nov. 9, 1688; m. Bethiah* Peake. 

4. Grace, born November 14, 1692. 

5. Abigail, born October 25, 1694. 

6. Susanna, born August 16, 1698. 

7. Prudence, born August 9, 1702. 



THIRD GENERATION, 



LIEUT. ED WARDS MORRIS {Edward^ Edicard'), 
[son of Deacon Edv/ard^ and Elizabeth^ (Bowen) Morris], 
was born in \\'ocdstock, Conn., November 9, 1688. 

He was married January 12, 171 5, to Bethiah^ Peake, 
{Jonathan'^ , Jonathair , Christopher'^)^ [daughter of Jona- 
than ^ and Hannah^ (Leavens) Peake] was born in Wood- 
stock February 20, 1698. 

He died in West Woodstock August 12, 1769, aged 81 
years. She survived him. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Elizabeth*, born October 12, 1716. 

2. Hannah, born March 9, 171S-9. 

3. Edward, born July 28, 171 9. 



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235 



4 

5 
6 

7 
8 

9 

10 

1 1 

12 

13 
14 



Grace, born July 4, 1721. 

Bethiah, born July 6, 1723. 

Isaac*', bora March 26, 1725; m. Sarah'' Chaffee, 

Asa, born February 21, 1726-7. 

Eunice, born January 12, 1728-9. 

Martha, born April 4, 1731. 

Mary, born June 1, 1733. 

Jonathan, born May 13, 1735. 

Priscilla, born April 28, 1737. 

Dorothy, born June 29, 1739. 

Hannah, born March 28, 1741. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

ISAAC* MORRIS {Edivard^, Ediuard\ Edward'), 
[son of Lieut. Edward^ and Bethiah* (Peake) Morris], was 
born in Woodstock, Conn., March 26, 1725. 

On October 18, 1748, he was married to Sarah* 
Chaffee {Joseph*'^ John^ , Joseph', Thomas'^), [daughter 
of Joseph* and Hannah* (May) ChaffeeJ, who was born 
January 18, 1729. 

He moved to Hampden County, Mass., about 1 761-2, 
and served in April, 1775, on the call to the Lexington alarm. 

He died in South Wilbraham, (now Hampden), Mass., 
January 10, 1778. She died April 27, 1818, aged 89. 

CriILDREN. 

1. Hannah^, born July 13, 1749, in Woodstock, Conn. 

2. Darius, born September 15, 1751. 

3. Isaac, born September 10, 1753. 

4. Joseph, born in March, 1755. 

5. Edward, born December 12, 1756. 

6. Elizabeth, born July 10, 1759. 

7. Sarah, born July 23, 1761. 

8. Eunice, born May 13, 1763 in South Wilbraham, 

9. Chester, born April 16, 1765, 

10. Ebenezer, born March 15, 1767. 

11. Elizabeth, born February 17, 1769. 

12. Ephraim^ , born Mar. 17, 1772; m. Pamela'" Converse. 



136 TIJK TUCKER GEN'F.AI.Or.Y. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



EPHRAIM= MORRIS, (Fsaac^ Eihvard\ Edward\ 
Edxvard^)^ [son of Isaac* and Sarah'' (Chaffee) Morris], 
was born March 17, 1772, in South Wilbraham, Hampden 
County, Mass. 

October 16. 1796, he was married at Stafford, Conn., 

to Pamela'' Converse {Jcssc^ ^ Josiah'\ Josiah'^ ^ James'^ ^ 

Janies^ , Edwat d^), [daughter of Jesse® and Mary (Moul- 

ton) Converse] who was born in Stafford February 28, 

1777. 

He resided in Stafford, Conn., Roxbury and Bethel, 
Vermont. 

She died in Bethel February 2, 1S46, in her 69th 
year. He died in Bethel October 7, 1852, in his 8ist year, 

Congregationalist. Federalist. Whig. 

CHILT>REN. 

1. Sylvester^, born Sept. 23, 1797, in Stafford, Conn. 

2. Amanda, born Sept. 20, 1799. 

3. Edward, born Sept. 15, 1801. 

4. Pamela, born October 6, 1803. 

5. Jesse Converse, born August 7, 1805, in Roxbury; 

died March 6, 1806. 

6. Jesse Converse, born March 7, 1807. 

7. Mary or Polly, born Nov. 27, 1809. 

8. Joseph, born Feb. 4, 1812; died July 21, 1813. 
g. Julia, born March 11, 1814, in Bethel, Vt. 

10. Eliza, born December 24, 1816. 

11. Joseph"', born Feb, 14, 18195 m. Clara Elizabeth'' 

Seymour. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



JOSEPH" MORRIS, {Rphraim\ haac\ Edivard\ 
Edward'. Edward^), [son of Ephraim' and Pamela'' (Con- 
verse) MorrisJ was born in Bethel, Vt., on Feb. 14, 18 19. 

On June 5, 1855, he married in Kirkland, Oneida 
County, N. Y., Clara Elizabeth'' Seymour, {Salmon^, 



THE TUCKER GENKAI.dOY 237 

Gideon^, Capt. Slcphen^, Ebcnczcr^ , Richard^, Richard''), 
[daughter of Salmon^ and Clarissa' (Graves) Seymour] 
who was born in Paris, Oneida County, N. Y. , September 
2, 1830. 

He resided in Bethel, Vt. , St. Louis, Mo., Utica, 
N. Y., and Chicago. 

Presbyterian. Whig. Republican. 

CHILDREX. 

1. Seymour'', born April ig, 1858, at St. Louis, Mo.; 

died there June 7, 1858. 

2. Tyler Seymour, born February 15, 1S63, at Utica, 

N. Y.; m. Ida Nesbitt^ Tucker. 



SEYMOUR, 

FIRST GENERATION. 

\. RICHARD' SEYMOUR came from Berry Pomeroy, 
Devonshire, England, to Hartford, Conn,, in 1639. 

In 165 1 he removed to Norvvalk, Conn. There he was 
selectman in 1655. 

He married Mercy . 

He died November 25, 1655, in Norvvalk, Conn. 

His widow afterward married November 22, 1656, 
John Steele, as his second wife. 

CIIILDRET^. 

I. Thomas^, 

2, 2. Richard-; m. Hannah^ Woodruff. 

3. John. 

4. Mary. 

5. Elizabeth, born in June, 1650. 

6. Zachariah. 



?38 



■J'HE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



SECOND GENERATION, 

2. CAPT. RICHARD" SEYMOUR {Richard'), was the 
son of Richard ' and Mercy Seymour. 

He Hved in Hartford and Farmington, Conn. He was 
a freeman in 1669. 

He married Hannah^ Woodruff, [daughter of Matthew 
and Hannah Woodruff]. He was Captain of the Seymour 
Fort at Kensington and the leader of the settlement. 

CHILDREN. 



SainueP. 

Mercy, born January 14, 16S3. 

Ebenezir, bapt. Feb. i, 1684; m. Abigail^ Hcllister. 

Jonathan, baptized April 17, 1687. 

Hannah. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

3. EBENEZER3 SEYMOUR {Richayd\ Richard') [son 
of Richard^ and Hannah^ (Woodruf?) Seymour] was 
baptized February i, 1684. 

He was married at Wethersiield, Conn., on December 
27, 1709. to Abigail^ Hollister, [Capt, Stephen*, Liejit. 
John'), [daughter of Capt. Stephen^ and AbigaiP (Treat) 
Holiistcr] who was born in Wethsrsfield August 16, 1688. 

He was a resident of that part of Farmington known 
as Kensington. 

CHILDKEN. 

1. Rebecca*, baptized in Farmington in October, 1711. 

2. Samuel, baptized in Farmington, October, 171 1. 

3. AI)igail, born March 3, 1711. 

4. Anna, born July 28, 171 2. 

5. Elizabeth, born April 28, 1714. 

6. Richard, born October 16, 1716. 

7. Stephen^, born in Kensington in 1718; married (first) 
Mehitable* Hickox. 

8. Lydia. 

9. Gideon. 



4. 



THK TUCKER GENEALOGY. 239 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

4. CAPT. STEPHEN* SEYMOUR, {Ebcnczer\ Rich- 
ard^, Richard^), [third son of Ebenezcr' and Abi<^aiP 
(Hollister) Seymour] was born in 171 8 at Kensington, Conn. 
He married (first) in Waterbury, Conn., March 18, 
1740, Mehitable* Hickox {Capt. Samuel^, Williavi^ , 
Serj. Samuel"'), [daughter of Capt. SamueP and Mary* 
(Hopkins) Hickox] who was born November 22, 1723. 
She died May 9, 1767. 

Stephen* Seymour married (second) on October 12, 
1767, Mary Dunbar, rehct of Ebenezer Elwell. 

In 1764 he served as Ensign and 1765 as Lieutenant 
of the Northbury Company of the Waterbury, Conn., 
mihtia. In May, 1777, he was appointed Captain of the 
Alarm List Company in the Northbury Parish in the Tenth 
Regiment. He served as Captain in the Northbury Com- 
pany in Colonel Cook's Regiment in August, 1777. 

He was appointed in January, 1778, to collect a levy 
of six pence on the pound, to be collected by March ist, 
and to provide clothing for the soldiers. 

He removed to Northbury (now Plymouth, Conn.) and 
thence to Sharon, Conn., where he died November 13, 1807. 

CHILDBEN. 

5. I. Gideon^, born Sept. 24, 1741; m. Ruth Prindle. 

2. Thankful, born November 6, 1743. 

3. Abel, born July 2, 1745. 

4. Daniel, born October 30, 1748. 

5. David, born May 5, 1750. 

6. Amos, born July 9, 1752, 

7. Lydia, born June 17, 1754. 

8. Zadock, born April 30, 1757. 

9. Mehitable, born July 21, 1759 \ 

10. Stephen, born July 21, 1759 \ 

11. Ame, born June 7, 1761. 

I a. Amos, born September 5, 1766. 



240 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



5. GIDEON^ SEYMOUR [Stephen^ Ebenezer^ , Rich- 
ard*, Richard'^), [eldest son of Stephen* and Mehitable^ 
(Hickox) Seymour] was born in Waterbury, Conn., Sep- 
tember 24, 1741. 

He was married at Waterbury, Conn., December 3, 
1761, to Ruth Prindle [daughter of Nathan and Mary 
(Richardson) Prindle] who was born in Waterbury, Conn., 
March 18, 1742-43. 

On November 16, 1795, Asahel Porter, of Westmore- 
land, Oneida County, N. Y. , deeded to Gideon Seymour of 
Plymouth, Litchfield County, Conn., for ^144, lot 84 in 
Cox's Patent, Oneida County, N. Y. 

Gideon Seymour settled on Paris Hill, Oneida County, 
in 1795. 

In September, 1795, with seven or eight of the inhabi- 
tants, a meeting was held and a church organization pro- 
posed. 

On December 18, 1796, the first service was held at 
the house of Gideon Seymour, and kept up each Sunday 
thereafter. 

On February 13, 1797, St. Paul's Parish, of the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Church, was organized, Gideon Seymour 
being chairman of the meeting and also elected junior 
warden. Later he served as a lay reader. He served as a 
warden from 1797 until 1S04. 

The first Bible and prayer book used in the public 
service of the church were gifts to the parish in 1798. 
Gideon Seymour was sent as a delegate to the diocesian 
convention in New York City, and received from Governor 
Jay a Bible which he brought to the parish. 

He died April 6, 1804. His wife died November 2, 
1823. Both are buried at Paris Hill. 

AUTHORITY — Anderson, Joseph : The Town and City of Waterbury, Conn. ; 
pages ?88, 438, 4?9, 442, 466. 
Connecticut Colonial Records, Vol. 12, pp. 253, 349. 
Records of the State of Connecticut (1776-1778), Vol. 1, p. 273. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 241 

CHILDREN, 

1. Sarah<5, born June 17, 1762; died November 21, 1776. 

2. Thankful, born February 25, 1764; died August 16, 

1829, in Paris, N.Y, She married Chauncey Hotch- 
kiss, who was born in Cheshire, Conn., February 
10, 1765, and died May 11, 1853. 

3. Sylvia, born October 26, 1766; died in October, 1835; 

married Adonijah Hotchkiss. 

4. Almira, born December 4, 1767; died November 15, 

1805; married Ambrose Whetmore. 

5. Selah, born July 5, 1769; m. October 10, 1797, Polly 

Brown; m, (second) Feb. 24, 1806, Betsej^ Burritt. 

6. Sala, born April 4, 1771; died October 20, 1776. 

7. Ruth, born January 21, 1773; d. May, 1845, at Silver 

Creek, N. Y.; m. Rev. Oliver Barnes. 

8. Lydia, born December 12, 1774; died April 13, 1826; 

m. Stephen Turner. 

9. Sarah, born September 5, 1776; died October 8, 1866, 

at Brocton, N. Y,; m. John Miller, 
10. Sala, born May 21, 1778; d. Feb. 23, 1855, in Illinois. 
6, II. Salmon^, born November 2, 1779; died March 23, 
1843; m. December 22, 1805, Clarissa'' Graves. 
12. Gideon, born November 22, 1782; died March 28, 
1817; m, June 22, 1807, Huldah Canby. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

6. SALMON" SEYMOUR {Gideon\ Stephen^ Ebenezer^ , 
RicJiard^ y Richard^), [fourth son of Gideon^ and Ruth 
(Prindle) Seymour] was born November 2, 1779. 

He was a member of the vestry of St. Paul's Protestant 
Episcopal Church, Paris Hill, N. Y., from 1804 to 1807, 

He was married Dec. 22, 1805, to Clarissa^ Graves, 
{Be7ijamin^ ^ Cornelius^, Joseph^ ^ Beiijamm^ ^ Jo/ut'^)^ 
[daughter of Benjamin^ and Eunice (Hale) Graves] who 
was born February 22, 1787, in Northbury, Conn, 

She died January 23, 1842, in Westmoreland, Oneida 
County, N. Y, He died there March 23, 1843. 

He was a prosperous farmer. Episcopalian. 



THE TUCKER GKNEALOGIT 



CUTLDBEN. 

1. Hannah'", born October 30, 1807; died November 

30, 1807, in Paris, N. Y. 

2. Hannah, born January 7, 1809; died October 29, 

1838, at Hampton, N. Y.; married, 1831, in Paris, 
N. Y. , to Harry Birdsey, who was born at Middle- 
town, Conn., July 29, 1810. 

3. Amanda, born November 7, 181 1; died September 

27, 1874, at CJinton, N. Y.; m. Calvin C. Barber, 
who was born August 26, 1808; died July 11, 1884, 
at Clinton, N. Y. 

4. Benjamin Graves, born August 19, 1814; died June 

14, 1879, at Clark's Mills, N.Y. ; m. December 25, 
1838, to Cerene M. Aldrich, who was born Decem- 
ber 15, 1821. 

5. William Belacy, born November 5, 1816; died Sept. 

6, 18S2, at St. Michaels, Md. ; m Anna B. Clark. 

6. Henry Norman, born September 10, 1819; died 

November 10, 1819, at Paris, N. Y. 

7. Marilla, born September 16, 1S21; died January 9, 

18S2, at Clinton, N. Y. ; m. March 4, 1846, in 
Westmoreland, N. Y. , to William H. Havens, who 
was born in Westmoreland May 17, 181 7; died at 
Clinton, N. Y., December 10, 1888. 

8. Enriily, born August 16, 1823; m. June 11, 1845, at 

Kirkland, N. Y., to John Bailey, who was born 
July 22, 1817, in Westmoreland, N. Y. ; she died 
July 19, 1892, at Kidder, Mo. 

9. Harriet Louisa, born February i, 1826; died June 

20, 1827, at Paris, N. Y. 

10. Emery Tyler, born April 8, 1828; died October 27, 

1878, at Iowa City, Iowa; married (first) January 

31, 1849, at Green's Corners. N. Y., to Charity 
Goodrich, who was born December 11, 1825; died 
March 11. 1867, at Iowa City, Iowa; m. (second) 
February 19, 1869, at Madison, Wjs. , to Susan 
Halverson, who was born July 9, 1842, at Jackson, 
Maine; died March 24, 1870, at Iowa City; m. 
(third) May 7, 1872, Sarah E. Libby, at Madison, 
Wis., who was born Aug. 17, 1844, at Anson, Me. 

11. Clara Elizabeth'^ , born September 2, 1830; m. June 

5, 1855, at Kirkland, N. Y., to Joseph" Morris, 
who was born February 14, 1819, at Bethel, Vt. 



ANCESTRY OF 
JESSICA KIBBARD TALBOT. 

(see pace 215) 
FIRST GENKRATION. 

PETER TALBOT was born in Lancashire, England. 
He came to America and settled in Dorchester, Mass. 

On January I2, 1677, he was married by Joseph 
Dudlow to Mary Wadell or Watell, 

He removed to Chelmsford, Mass. " While residing 
there the Indians, during his absence one day, cam.e to his 
house, seized his wife, and killing their infant child, carried 
her away with them. They were immediately followed by 
her neighbors, and she was soon retaken and restored to 
her home." 

Mary (Watell) Talbot died in Chelmsford, Mass., 
August 29, 1687. 

On December 29, 1687, Peter Talbot married (second) 
Hannah^ (Clarke) Frizzell, [daughter of William and Mar- 
garet Clarke and \N'idow of William Frizzell]. She was 
born February 13, 1645-6. 

The family removed to Dorchester. 

In 1678 Peter Talbot's rate was remitted by vote of 
the town of Dorchester, and again in 1680. 

In 1680 he was ordered to pay 2 shillings 9 pence 
more on account of the trees about the meeting house, but 

AUTHORITIES— N. E. H. & G. Register, Vol. 9, pp. 129-130. 

Record Commissioner's Report, Dorchister Births, Marriages and 

Deaths, Vol. 21, p. 23. 
Milton, Mass., Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843. 

Boston, 1900, p. 61. 
Record Commissioner's Report, Dorchester Town Records, Vol. 4, pp. 

226, 239. 
Bodge, George M.: Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 433. 



244 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

as the town was in his debt about the meeting house the 
selectmen allowed the claim as an offset. 

Peter Talbot received a grant of land in Narragansett 
Township No. 5, now Bedford, Mass, for services performed 
in King Philip's War. 

He died in 1704. 

CHILDREX. 

1. Edward", born March 31, 1679. 

2. Dorothy, born February 20, 1680. 

3. Mary, born January 15, 1682. 

CIIILiDR EN— SECOND makhiagr. 

4. George"- , born Dec. 24, 1688; m. Mary^ Turell. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

GEORGE^ TALBOT, [son of Peter^ and Hannah^ 
(Clarke) Talbot] was born December 24, 1688, in Chelms- 
ford, Mass, 

On February 18, 1706-7, he was married in Milton, 
Mass., to Mary Turell, [daughter of Daniel and Anna 
(Barrell) Turell] who was born in 1687. 

She died April 4, 1736, aged 50, and was buried in 
Canton, there being no burying place in Stoughton at time 
of her death. 

He married (second) Elizabeth* Withington, {Philip'^, 
Richard^, Hcniy'^), [daughter of Philip-^ and Thankful-^ 
(Pond) Withington] who was born in June, 1696. She 
died April 30, 1774. Buried at Stoughton. 

He died July 31, 1760, aged 72 years, and is buried 
in Stoughton, Mass., on land which he gave as a burying 
place. 

AUTHORITIES— Record Commissioner's Report of Dorcliester's Births, Mar- 
riages and Deaths, Vol. 21, pp. 40, 53, 55, 59, 61, 64. 69, 72, 76. 
Milton, Mass., Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843. 
Boston, 1900, p. 177. 
Records of the Town of Needham, Mass., Vol. 2, p. 46. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 245 

CHILDREX. 

1. Mary^, born March 4, 1708. 

2. Daniel, born March 7, 1709-10. 
3 Hannah, born May i, 1712. 

4. George, born October 24, 1714. 

5. Peter, born February 27, 1717-8. 

6. Sarah, born August 23, 1719. 

7. Jerusha, born October 6, 1721. 

8. Ebenezer'^, born December 4, 1723; m. Elizabeth^ 

Withington. 
g. Experience, born February 20, 1725. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

EBENEZER3 TALBOT, {George^, Peter% [son of 
George^ and Mary (Turell) Talbot] was born December 4, 
1723, in Stoughton, Mass. 

On March 6, 1746-7, he was married at Dorchester, 
(where he was then living), to Elizabeth^ Withington, 
{William'^, Philip^, Richard^, He?try^)^ [daughter of 
William* and Elizabeth* (Blake) Withington] (a niece of 
his father's second wife). She was born October i, 1725. 

He died May 26, 1764, of an acute disease, and his 
widow married November 7, 1770, David'^ Fisher of Nor- 
wood, {Eliezer^., Anthony'^, Anthony'^, Anthony'^\ [son 
of Eliezer* and Mary (Aver}') Fisher] who was born June 
21, 1705, in Dedham, Mass. He died July 30, 1779. His 
widow died July 2, 1802. 

CHILiDREN. 

1. Ruth*, born December 11, 1747. 

2. William, born October 8, 1749. 

3. Ebenezer^, born Nov. 3, 1751; m. Elizabeth^ Fuller. 

4. Elizabeth, born February 22, 1754. 

5. Josiah, born October 10, 1756. 

6. Enoch, born June 18, 1758. 

7. Rachel, born October 8, 1759. 

8. Jedediah, born July 21, 1761. 

g. Charlotte, born in December, 1762. 



246 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 



EBENEZER* TALBOT, {Ebeneser\ Gcorge\ Peter') 
[son of Ebcnezer^ and Elizabeth* (Within^ton) Talbot] wa^ 
born November 3, 175 i, in Stoughton, Mass. 

He was married by Rev. Mr. Chickering December 7, 
1779. to Elizabeth^ Fuller {Bertjaviiu'^, Samuel^, [ona- 
ihan" , Robert') [daughter of Benjamin* and Sarah {Bill- 
iard) Fuller] who was born Septem^ber 25, 1752, at 
Dedbam, Mass. 

Tbty lived on his father's farm in Stoughton until 
about 1784, when they moved to Norwood. 

His wife died March 13, 1805. About 1807 he re- 
moved from Norwood to Francistown, N. H. There he 
married (second) February 2, 1809, Lydia Smith. 

His will was probated May 30, 18 12. His children 
were born in Stoughton or Norwood. 

CIIII^DREN— FIRST MARRIAGR. 

1. Jedediah^, born December a8, 1780. 

2. Betsey, born February 21, 1783. 

3. Rachel, born July 31, 1785. 

4. Ebenezer, born July 7, 1787. 

5. Joel^ , born September 5, 1791; m. Hannah Fuller. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

JOEL^ TALBOT {Ebenczcr\ Ebenezer^, George^ ^ 
Peter'), [son of Ebenezer'* and Elizabeth^ (Fuller) Talbot] 
was born on September 5, 1791, in Norwood, Mass., and 
baptized November 13, 1791. 

He married Hannah Fuller, [daughter of Elisha and 
Louise Fuller] who was born August 30, 1787. 

She died October 17, 1877, at Norwood, Mass. He 
died February 17, 1878, at Norwood, Mass. 

AUTHORITIES — Record Commissioner's Report: Dorchester Births, Marriages 
and Deaths, Boston, Mass., Vol. 21, pp. 72 and 221. 

Dedham Historical Rc},Mster, Dedham, Mass., 1893, Vol 4, p. 106. 

Canton, Mass. Records; Births, Marriagesand Deaths, 1715-1845, pages 
68 and 151. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 247 



CIIILDKEN. 



I. Henry Alrin^, born November 25, 1822; m, Susan A. 
Coburno Wild. 

2. George Brooks, born ; died January 26, 1898. 

3. Elizabeth F., born in 1817; died January 11, 1850. 

4. Joel Francis, born in 1824; died October 29, 1841. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

HENRY ALVIN« TALBOT {Joel\ Ehe7iezer\ Ebe- 
nezer^ , George^ , Peter'^)^ [son of Joel'^ and Hannah (Fuller) 
Talbot] was born November 25, 1822, at Norwood, Mass. 

On January 13, 1847, he was married at Brockton, 
Mass., to Susan Ann Coburn^ Wild, (Joseph^, Elijah'^, 
William^, William^, /ohn^), [daughter of Joseph^ and 
Charlotte'' (Packard) Wild] who was born March 2, 1827, 
in Brockton, Mass. 

He was a cabinet maker. He died September 18, 
1866, at Norwood, Mass. 

Congregationalist. Democrat. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Henry Herbert'', born Dec. 5, 1847; m. Dec. 29, 

1870, Hannah L. Jenkins. She died in April, 
1889. He married (second) in Nov., 1894, Emma 
Nickerson of Chatham, Mass. 

CHILD. 

Carrie E.*, born in Brockton, Mass., Aug. 20, 1873; m. Oct. 6, 
1S96, Fred Fellows of Maiden. 

2. Joel Fra?icis'^ , born October 19, 1850; m. Ella Eliza- 

beths Hibbard. 

3. Charlotte Elizabeth, born Sept. 12, 1852; m. March 

10, 1873, George V. Scott of Cambridge, Vt. 

CHILDREN. 

H. Franks, born Aug. 5, 1876. 

Susie May, born Dec. 5, 1879; died Sept. 22, 1881. 

Jennie E.. born Sept. 12, 1882. 

Addie, born Dec. 16, 1888. 

Hattie E., born in Sept., 1894. 



248 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

4. Addie Anna'', born September 16, 1858; m. Aug. 12, 

1879, True H. Files of Bangor, Maine, 

CHJI.DHEIf. 

Lottie May, born Sept. 18, 1880; died Sept. 20, 1881. 
T. Herbert «, born May 17, 1882. 
Susie A., born April 17, 1884. 

5. Hattie Guild'', born December 26, 1864; m. Jan. 31, 

1883, Frank M. Hall. He died March 28, 1885. 

CHILDREN. 

Walter F.,» born Dec, 17, 1883. 
Lottie M., born June 12, 1885. 

She married (second) June i, 18S7, Henry F. Went- 
worth of North Stoughton, Mass. 

CHILD. 

Forrest A.,8 born Oct. 10, 1891. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 



JOEL FRANCIS' TALBOT, (^Henry Alvin\ Joel\ 
Ehcncr:cr^, Ebenezer^, George", Peter'^), [son of Henry 
Alvin*' and Susan A. Coburn^ (Wild) TalbotJ was born Oct. 
ber 19, 1850, in South Dedham, (now Norwood), Mass. 

On November 18, 1874, he was married at Lockport, 
N. Y. , to Ella Elizabeth^ Hibbard, {Adoniram JitJson'^, 
Diah'^ , Zebtilon^ , Copt. Zebuloit'' , Nathaniel^, Robert^, 
Robert^), [daughter of Adoniram Judson'' and Lovedy 
(Rettenbury) Hibbard] who was born January 29, 1854, 
at Hess Road, Newfane Township, Niagara County, N. Y. 

He is a member of the Union League Club, the Illi- 
nois Club, the Chicago Athletic Club, the Glen View 
Club, President of the Chicago Jewelers Association, and 
Vice-President of The Central Free Dispensary of West 
Chicago. 

He is Vice-President of the Dennison Manufacturing 
Company, 128 Franklin Street, Chicago. Residence, 570 
Washington Boulevard, Chicago. 

Pie.'-:byterian. Republican. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 249 

CHIJLDRE jV— BORSf in st. r-ouis. 

1. Jessica Hibbard^, born July 19, 1S77; m. William 

Ruggles^ Tucker. 

2. Lucile, born November 2, 1881. 

3. Benson Alvin, born September 28, 1885. 



HIBBARD. 

FIRST GENERATION. 

ROBERT HIBBARD was born in Salisbury, England, 
and was baptized March 13, 161 3. 

He married in England Joan or Joanna , 

He came to Salem, Mass., between 1635 ^'^d 1639. 
He died at Beverly, Mass., May 7, 1684. 

CHIJLDEEN. 

1. Mary^, born September 27, 1641. 

2. John, born November 24, 1642. 

3. Sarah, born July 26, 1644. 

4. Sarah, baptized May 17, 1646. 

6 S^r^' [ ^°^^ ^^'^^^^ 7' ^^■^^' '"• ^^^'■y' Walden. 

7. Joanna, born December 23, 1651. 

8. Elizabeth, born March i, 1653. 
g. Abigail, born March 6, 1655. 

10. Samuel, born April 20, 1658. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

ROBERT^ HIBBARD {Robert^), [son of Robert and 
Joan Hibbard] was born in Salem (now Beverly), Mass., 
and baptized March 7, 1648. 

He married Mary Walden of Wenham, Mass., to 
which place he removed. 

In 1700 he removed to Windham, Conn. 

He died in Windham April 29, 17 10, aged 6^. His 
wife died in Windham March 7, 1736. 



250 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Mary^, born August i8, 1674. 

2. Robert, born July 8, 1676; ni. Mary Reed. 

3. Joseph, born May 15, 1678. 

4. NathanieP , born in 1680; ra Sarah Crane. 

5. Ebenezer, baptized in 1683. 

6. Martha, born in 1684. 

7. Josiah, born in 1686, 

8. Hannah, born in i6gi. 

9. Sarah, born in 1694. 

10. Abigail, born in 1696, 

11. Lydia, born in 1699. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

ROBERT^ HIBBARD, {Robert'', Robert^) [son of 
Robert^ and Mary (Walden) Hibbard] was born in Wen- 
ham, Mass., July 8, 1676. 

He removed to Windham, Conn. 

On December 3, 1702, he married Mary Reed, who 
was born June 14, 16S7. She died March 7, 1763. He 
died June 26, 1742. 

CIIILDBEN. 

1. John*, born October 30, 1704. 

2. Robert, born April 30, 1706. 

3. Josiah, born September 30, 1708. 

4. Samuel, hoxxi Mays, 1710; m. (second) Mary Burnap. 

5. Mary, born December 14, 1711. 

6. Joshua, born October 19, 1713. 

7. David, born March 9, 1716. 

8. Martha, born September 9, 1718. 

9. Hannah, born April 22, 1721. 
10. Seth, born April 19, 1724. 

AUTHORITY— Hibbard, A. G. : Genealogy of the Hibbard Family, Hartford 
Conn., 1901, pages 12, 19, 24, 26, 12, 36, 66, 67, 128 and 234. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 251 

SERJ. NATHANIEL^ HIBBARD {Robert\ Robert'), 
[son of Robert^ and Mary (VValden) Hibbard] was born 
in Wenham, Mass., in 1680. 

On April 16, 1702, he was married to Sarah Crane, 
{Jonathan'^ , Benjamin^'), [a daughter of Jonathan^ and 
Deborah^ (Griswold) Crane] who was born in Norwich, 
Conn., in 1680. 

In May, 17 12, he was voted additional wages as cor- 
poral — 4 shillings 4 pence — as a soldier in the expedition 
to Canada. 

His will was dated April 22, 1725, and the estate 
inventoried £700, 9s, 6d. 

He died April 20, 1725. She died April 16, 1702. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Nathaniel*, born January 3, 1703. 

2. Samuel, born July 21, 1704. 

3. Anna, born May 30, 1705. 

4. Deborah, born May 28, 1707, 

5. Nathaniel, ) , /^ 4. u 

^ T ^, V born October 23, 1709. 

6. Jonathan, j j' / y 

7. Paul, born March 4, 1712. 

8. Zebulon*', born February 20, 1714; m. Hannah* Bass, 
g. Sarah, born June 27, 1717. 

10. Elisha, born December 11, 1719. 

11. Gideon, born in May, 1721. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

SAMUEL* HIBBARD, {Robert\ Robert'-, Robert'), 
[son of Robert^ and Mary (Reed) Hibbard] was born in 
Windham, Conn., May 2, 17 10. 

On January 17, 1738, he married (first) Mary or Lydia 
Kingsley. She died April 16, 1747. 

On September 27, 1748, he married (second) Mary 
Burnap. She died April 8, 1809. He died Nov. 29, 1792. 



252 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

CHILDBEN. 

1. Lydia^, born October 20, 1740. 

2. Eunice, born May 14, 1745. 

3. Abel, born October 12, 1749. 

4. Mary, born November 22, 1750. 

5. Lucy^ , born January 27, 1753; m. Zebulon^ Hibbard. 

6. Asa, born October 3, 1755. 

7. Diah, born June 29, 1757. 

8. Lyman, born June 5, 1760. 

9. Milan, born January 30, 1762, 



CAPT. ZEBULON* HIBBARD, {Nathanicl\ Robert^ 
Roberf^), [son of Nathaniel^ and Sarah (Crane) Hibbard] 
was born in Windham, Conn., February 20, 1714. 

On March 30, 1737, he married Hannah* Bass, 
{John^, Thomas^, Samuel^), [daughter of John*'' and 
Elizabeth^ (Neal) Bass] who was born May 27, 171 i. 

In 1760 he was Ensign of the Third Company, Fifth 
Regiment, In 1765 he was Lieutenant, and in 1766 Cap- 
tain of the same company. 

He died in Windham, Conn., about 1790. 

His will is dated September 3, 1788, and the estate 
inventoried ^1,961, 2s, lod. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Lydia^, born November 18, 1737. 

2. Sarah, born September 2, 1739. 

3. Hannah, born August 31, 1741. 

4. Sybil, born October 27, 1743. 

5. Zilpah, born November 20, 1745. 

6. Zebulon^", born Feb, 17, 1748; m. Lucy^ Hibbard, 

7. Jerusha, born January 13, 1750. 

8. Peninnah, born February 13, 1752. 

9. Jabez, born July 2, 1754. 

10. Hezekiah, born September 23, 1756, 

11. Anna, born November 15, 1758. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 253 

FIFTH GENERATION. 

ZEBULON^ HIBBARD, {Capt, Zebiilon\ NatJianid\ 
Robert^, Robert^), [son of Capt. Zebulon* and Hannah 
(Bass) Hibbard] was born on February 17, 1748, in Wind- 
ham, Conn. 

On April 18, 1777, he married Lucy^ Hibbard, {Sam- 
tiel^y Robert^, Robert^, Robert^), [daughter of Samuel* 
and Mary (Burnap) Hibbard] who was born Jan. 27, 1753. 

In the fall of 1783 he removed to Randolph, Vt. 

He died March i, 18 14. She died November 18, 1828. 

CHILDREI>r. 

1. Asa^. 

2. Enoch. 

3. Samuel, born December 11, 1780. 

4. Diah^ , born in November, 1782; m. Sarah^' Averill, 

5. Mary, born November 14, 1785. 

6. Asa. 

7. Enoch, born October 12, 1792, 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

DIAH6 HIBBARD, {Capt. Zebitlon\ Zebulon\ Na- 
thanieP , Robert", Robert^), [son of Capt. Zebulon^ and 
Lucy^ (Hibbard) HibbardJ was born in Windham., Conn., 
in November, 1782. 

On March 12, 1807, he was married to Sarah® Averill, 
{Saimiel^, John^, John'^ , William^, Wii/iatn'^), daughter 
of Samuel^ and Mollie (Barnes) Averill, of Randolph, Vt. 

He served as a volunteer in the war of 18 12. 

He died at Brookfield, Vt., August 26, 183 i. She died 
June 5, 1852, at Randolph, Vt. 



254 THE TUCTCER GENEALOGY. 

CniLDKKN. 

1. Diah Volney'', born April ii, 1808. 

2. Diah Alonzo, born April 24, i8og. 

3. Sarah Elvira, born May 18, 181 1. 

4. Laura Malvina, born Jul}' 15, 1814. 

5. Enoch Byron, born June 23, 1816 

6. Adonira;n Juisofi^ , born August 29, 18 18; in. (first), 

Harriet Harwood; (second), Lovedy Retteubury . 

7. Roswell, born December 11, 1821. 

8. Samuel Averiil, born September 24, 1828. 

9 George Diah Alonzo, born September 11, 1831. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

ADONIRAM JUDSON^ HIBBARD, {Diah\ Zebulon\ 
Capt. Zebulon^, Nathaniel^ , Robert^, Roberf^), [soa of 
Diah^ and Sarah (Averiil) Hibbard) was born August 29, 
1 8 18, at Brookfield, Vt. 

On May 6, 1842, at Newfane, Niagara County, N. Y., 
he married (first) Harriet Harwood, [daughter of South- 
worth and Elvira (Mudge) Harwood] who was born in 
1824 at Gasport, N. Y. 

She died April 7, 1849, at Lockport, N. Y. 

He married (second) on May 25, 1850, at Lockport, 
N. Y. , Lovedy Rettenbury, who was born February 14, 
1834, in Devonshire, England. 

She died April 23, 1891, in Lockport, N. Y. 

He is a farmer and resides at Hess Road, Newfane 
Township, Niagara County, N. Y. 

CHIL,DKEN. 

1. Sarah Elvira^, born February 9, 1843. 

2. Melissa, born in June, 1845. 

3. Harriet, born in November, 1848. 

4. Ella Elizabsih^ , born Jan, 29, 1854; m. Joel Francis'' 

Talbot. 

5. Emma, born March 10, 1856. 

6. George, born in October, 1874. 



ANCESTRY OF 
POGER SHESr>/IAN. 

(see page 215) 
FIRST GENERATION. 

CAPT. JOHNi SHERMAN was bom in 1615 in Ded- 
ham, Essex County, England, and came to Watertovvn, 
Mass., with his father in 1634. 

He was admitted Freeman May 17, 1637. He was a 
land surveyor and a selectman many times from 1637 to 
1680. Was Town Clerk in 1648, and afterwards Repre- 
sentative to the General Court in 165 1, 1653, 1663 and 
1682. He was Steward of Harvard College in 1662. 

In June, 1654, he was accepted as Ensign of the 
Watertown Company, and attained the rank of Captain in 
1680. His land in Watertown passed to his son Joseph. 

He was with Governor Winthrop when the northern 
boundary of Massachusetts was surveyed, and when the 
line was established at Wier's landing, Lake Winne- 
pesaukee. 

He married Martha^ Palmer, daughter of William' and 
Grace Palmer. 

He died January 25, 1 690-1, aged ^6 years. She 
died February 7, 1 700-1. 

CHfJLDREN. 

1. John^, born November 2, 1638. 

2. Martha, born February 21, 1640-r. 

3. Mary, born March 25, 1643. 

4. Sarah, born January 17, 1647-8. 

5. Elizabeth, born March 15, 1648-9, 

6. Joseph'^, born May 14, 1650; m. Elizabeth^ Winship. 

7. Grace, born December 20, 1653. 



256 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

JOSEPH^ SHERMAN, {John^) [son of Capt. John' 
and Martha- (Palmer) Sherman] was born in Watertown, 
Mass., May 14, 1650. 

He was married in Watertown November 18, 1673, 
to Elizabeth^ Winship, [daughter of Lieut. Edward^ and 
Elizabeth^ (Wilkinson) Winship] of Cambridge. 

He was a blacksmith by trade, and was often chosen 
Selectman and Assessor, and was Representative to the 
General Court from 1702 to 1705. 

Joseph Sherman served under Capt. Jonathan Poole 
and Capt. Thomas Brattle in King Philip's War during 1676. 

He was a leader in the church controversy which re- 
sulted in the separation of Waltham from Watertown. 
He died June 30, 1731, in Watertown. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John'', born January 11, 1674-5. 

2. Edward, born September 2, 1677. 

3. Joseph, born February 8, 1679-80. 

4. Samuel, born November 28, 1681. 

5. Jonathan, born February 24, 1683-4. 

6. Ephraim, born March 16, 1684-5. 

7. Elizabeth, born July 15, 1687. 

8. Martha, baptized September i, 1689. 

9. William'^', born June 28, 16925 m. Mehitable^ Wel- 

ington. 

10. Sarah, born June 2, 1694. 

11. Nathaniel, born September 19, 1696. 

REFERENCES— Bond's History of Watertown, pp. 430, 431. 

New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 24, pp. 67-70. 
Bodge's Soldiers ia King Philip's War, pp. 260, 265. 
Boutell's Life of Roger Sherman. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 257 

THIRD GENERATION. 

WILLIAM^ SHERMAN, {Josep/r, John'), [son of 
Joseph' and Elizabeth^ (Winship) Sherman] was born in 
Watertown, Mass., June 28, 1692. 

He hved for a time in Charlestovvn, and married there, 
(first), Rebecca Cutler, of Charlestown, who died soon 
after. He married (second), in Watertown, September 3, 
17 1 5, Mehitable^ WelIin°;ton, {Benjamin^ , Roger'') [daugh- 
ter of Benjamin^ and Elizabeth" (Sweetman) Wellington] 
who was baptized in Watertown March 4, 1687-8. 

He resided in Watertown, Newton and Stoughton. 

He is described in deeds of land purchased here as a 
*' cordwainer." He appears to have been a farmer as well 
as a shoemaker. 

He died March 20, 1741, aged 49 years, and was 
buried at Canton, Mass. 

CHILD — FIRST MAKBIAGB. 

1. William*, born in Charlestown; died young. 

CHILDKEX— SECOND MARRIAOR. 

2. William, born March 20, 1716-7. 

3. Mehitable, born in 1719. 

4. Roger^, born April 19, 1721; m. Elizabeth^ Hartwell, 

5. Elizabeth, born April 5, 1723. 

6. Nathaniel, born March 5, 1724. 

7. Josiah, born April 29, 1729.* 

8. Rebecca, born , 

*Rev. Josiah" Sherman was the ancestor of the Hon. Chauncey M. 
Depew, viz : 

1. Rev. Josiah^ Sherman m. Martha Minot. 

2. Rev. Justus" Mitchell m. Martha" Sherman. 

3. Chauncey Root Mitchell m. Ann Johnstone. % 

4. Martha Mitchell m. Isaac Depew. 

5. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, born April 23, 1834, United States Senator 

from New York, 1899-1905. 



258 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

HON. ROGER* SHERMAN, {William'^, Joseph-, 
Capt. John^), [son of William'^ and Mehitable^ (Welling- 
ton) Sherman] was born in Newton, Mass., April 19, 172 i. 

On November 7, 1749, he married (first) Elizabeth^ 
Hart well [Joseph^, Sanmcl'^ , Satmiel^ , William'^), [daugh- 
ter of Deacon Joseph* and Mary* (Tolman) Hartwell] of 
Stoughton, who was born August 31, 1726. She died in 
October, 1760. 

He married (second), May 12, 1763, Rebecca Prescott, 
[daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Minot) Prescott] of 
Danvers, Mass., who was born May 20, 1742. 

He went from Stoughton to New Milford, Conn., in 
1743, and from there to New Haven in 1761. He was a 
shoemaker by trade. ■ ' 

He graduated from Yale College, receiving his degree 
in 1786. 

He was a member of the Continental Congress in 1774, 
and as one of the Committee of Five, with Franklin, 
Jefferson, Adams and Livingston, drew up the Declaration 
of Independence and signed it. 

He was Mayor of New Haven for many years, and was 
United States Senator from 1791 to the time of his death. 
He was the only man who signed all the four great state 
papers, namely : The Bill of Rights, Articles of Federation, 
Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the 
United States. 

He was elected a Deputy from New Haven to the 
Legislature in 1764, 1765, and 1766, and was elected an 
assistant, or a member of the upper house of the Legis- 
lature in May, 1766, holding the ofBce for nineteen years. 



REFERP:NCES— Boutell's Life of Roger Sherman. 
Bond's History of Watertown, Mass. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOOY 259 

In March, 1766, he was appointed a Judge of the 
Superior Court, and was annually reappointed to that ofBce 
for twenty-three years. 

He died July 23, 1793, in New Haven, Conn. 

C III LDRKN— FIRST MAItBIAGB. 

1. John^, born July 19, 1750; m. Rebecca^ Austin. 

2. William. 

3. Isaac. 

4. Chloe. 

5. Oliver. 

6. Chloe, born in 1757. 

7. Elizabeth. 

CHILDREN— SECOND mabriagb. 

8. Rebecca, born February 22, 1764. 
g. Elizabeth, born December 31, 1765. 

10. Roger, Jr., born August 5, 1768. 

11. Mehitable, born February 20, 1772. 

12. Mehitable, born January 28, 1774; m. Daniel Barnes 

and Jeremiah Evarts.* 

13. Oliver, born January 19, 1777. 

14. Martha, born September 24, 1779; m. Rev. Jeremiah 

Day, President of Yale College. 

15. Elizabeth, born January 11, 1783; m. Hon. Samuel 

Hoar.f 

* The parents of the Hon. William M. Evarts, viz : 

1. Mehitable Sherman'' m. Jeremiah Evarts. 

2. William Maxwell Evarts, born February 6, 1818. He was Attorney 

General of the United States in 1868; was Secretary of State 
under President Hayes 1877-1881; United States Senator from 
New York, 1885-1891. 
fThe parents of the Hon. Ebenezer R. Hoar and Hon. George F. 
Hoar, viz : 

1. Hon. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, born February 21, 1816. Attorney 

General under President Grant, 1869-1870. 

2. Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, born Au:j;ust 29, 1826. United States 

Senator from Massachusetts since 1877. 



260 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

FIFTH GENERATION. 

LIEUT. JOHN« SHERMAN, {Rog.'r'-, WPliain\ 
JosepJi^y Capt. John^), [son of Roger* and Elizabeth^ 
(Hartvvell) Sherman] was born in New Milford, Conn., 
July 19, 1750. 

He married at New Haven, Conn., August 28, 1771, 
Rebecca^ Austin, {David^, David^ , David^, John'^), 
[daughter of David^ and Mary^ (Mix) Austin] of New 
Haven, who was born December 16, 1753. 

He was Paymaster and Lieutenant in the army during 
the War of the Revolution. 

He died at Canton, Mass., Augusts, 1801. His wife 
died at Suftield, Conn., March 12, 1800. 

CHILDREN. 

1. John^, born June 30, 1772. 

2. Maria, bora September 30, 1774. 

3. Harriet, born September 30, 1776. 

4. EHzabeth, born September 10, 1778. 

5. David Austin, born December 10, 17S1. 

6. Henry, bora October 16, 1782. 

7. Charles^ , bora Nov. 28, 1783; m. Jannet^ Taylor. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



COLONEL CHARLES" SHERMAN, {Lieut. John\ 
lion. Roger*", William'^, Joseph^, dipt. John^), [son of 
John^ and Rebecca® (Austin) Sherman] was born at New 
Haven, Conn., November 28, 1783. 

He married (first), September 29, 1808, Sophia 
Staples, (daughter of Rev. John and Susanna (Perkins) 
Staples] of Canterbury, Conn., who was born October 12, 
1 79 1, at Canterbury. 

She died April 3, 18 13, at New Haven, Conn. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 261 

He married (second), May 20, 18 14, Jannet^ Taylor, 
[daughter of John^ and Margaret (Scott) Taylor] of New 
York City, who was born in New York on Dec. 30, 1794. 

He was a Colonel of the militia during the war of 181 2 
and was afterwards a merchant at New Haven, of the firm 
Sherman & Street. 

In 1 82 1 he removed to Suffield, Conn., where he was 
a farmer, and for many years a deacon in the First Con- 
gregational Church. 

He died in Suffield, Conn., March 20, 1844. His wife 
died in Suffield August 6, 1843. 

CHILDKEN— FIRST MABRIAGR. 

1. Charles Austin'', born June 10, i8io, in New Haven. 

2. Elizabeth Ripley, born Feb. 29, 1812, in New Haven. 

CHILDHEN— SECOKD mabkiagb. 

3. Margaret Scott, born Feb. 8, 1815, in New Haven. 

4. Henry, born April 16, 1817, in New Flaven. 

5. lames Taylor'^, born April 17, i8ig, in New Haven; 

married Abigail Talcott^ Morgan. 

6. Andrew Taylor, born Sept. i, 1821, in Suffield, Conn. 

7. Jane Taylor, born June 18, 1823, in " 

8. Harriet, born Sept. 17, 1825, in ** 
g. Eliza Taylor, born June 15, 1827, in " 

10. Janet Taylor, born July 23, 1829, in " 

11. John Taylor, born Nov. 10, 1831, in " 

12. Robert Taylor, born March 31, 1834, in '■'■ 

13. Roger, born April 5, 1837, in " 

14. William Watt, born Aug. 30, 1839, in " 

15. Walter, born July g, 1843, in " 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

JAMES TAYLOR\ {Col. Charles\ Lieut. John\ 
Hon. Roger^, William^, Joseph^, Capt. John^\ [son of 
Charles" and Jannet^ (Taylor) Sherman] was born in 
New Haven, Conn., April 17, 18 19. 



262 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 

He married at Windsor, Conn., February 9, 1842, 
Abigail Talcotf Morgan, {[asper^ ^ William Avery^ , Capt. 
William^, William^, Capt. John~ , Ja)}2es'^), [daughter of 
Deacon Jasper*^ and AbigaiP (Talcott) Morgan] who was 
born March 17, 1824, at Windsor, Conn. 

He was a farmer on the old homestead in Suffield until 
1856, when he went to Brodhead, Wis,, and was one- of 
its original settlers. He was at first in the mercantile busi- 
ness there with his brother Henry, afterwards a farmer, and 
now (1902), residing there. 

CniLDRKN. 

1. James Morgan^, born Nov. 20, 1842; m. Mary Eliza** 

French. 

2. Abbie Talcott, born March 31, 1845, in Suffield. 

3. Eliza Morgan, born May 2, 1849, in " 

4. Anna Maria, born Oct. i, 1850, in " 

5. Charles Jasper, born June 11, 1852, in ** 

John Talcott, ) . • , am q r i, 

■{ . „ , ' V twins, born April i, 1856. " 
Jessie I aylor, j ' t- ^ j 

8. Helen Mabel, born Jan. 25, 1862, in Brodhead, Wis. 

9. Edwin Dennison, born July 26, 1863, in '' 
10. Fannie Boynton, born March 18, 1866, in ** 



6. 
7- 



EIGHTH GENER.\T:0N. 

JAMES MORGAN*^ SHERMAN, {James Taylor\ 
Col. Charles^, Lieut. John^ , Hon. Roger^ , William'^, 
Joseph-., Capt. John^), [son of James Taylor'^ and Abigail 
Talcotf (Morgan) Sherfnan] was born in Windsor. Conn., 
November 20, 1842. 

He married at Maiden, 111., May 2, 1871, Mary Eliza'' 
French, {Sanford B.^ , John'^ , Jonathmi^ . Nicholas'^, Will- 
iam'^, Jacob'^ , Lieut. William^')., [daughter of Sanford 
Byron'' and Mary Ann*^ (Mead) French] who was born at 
Maiden, Mass., December 22, 1849. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 263 

He came to Brodhead, Wis., with his parents in 1856, 
living there until 1862, when he came to Chicago. He was 
in the grain business on the Board of Trade in the firms of 
Poole & Sherman, and J. M. Sherman & Co., until May, 
1899. lis is now (1902) residing at 18 Park Avenue, 
Chicago. 

He is a member of the Union League Club and the 
Congregational Club of Chicago. 

Congregationalist. Republican. 

CHILDHE]Sr. 

1. Edwin Morgan^, born July 19, iSj^, in Chicago. 

2. Roger'^ , bora March 18, 1S77, in Chicago, 111.; m. 

Martha Evelina^ Tucker. 

3. Martha Elizabeth, born Jul}^ 6, 1878, in Chicago. 

4. Mary French, born March 31, 1880, in Chicago. 



FRENCH, 

FIRST GENK.RATION. 

LIEUT. WILLIAM^ FRENCH was born in Halsted, 
Essex County, England, March 15, 1603. 

He married Elizabeth , and had four children 

born in England. 

He came to America in the ship "Defense" in the 
summer of 1635. He settled first in Cambridge, and in 
1652 was one of the original proprietors and earliest set- 
tlers of Billerica. He was a Lieutenant of the militia and 
afterwards Captain. He was chosen to sit in the Deacons' 
seat in 1659; Commissioner to establish the County rate 
the same year; one of the first selectmen in 1660, serving- 
nine years; committee to examine children and servants in 



261 THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

reading, religion and the catechism in i66r; the first 
Deputy or Representative of Bilierica in the General Court 
at Boston in 1660, taking his seat in 1663. He was active 
in the cause of Indian instruction. 

His wife died March 31, 1668, and he married (second) 
Mary, daughter of Thomas Lathrop, of Bilierica, and 
widow of John Stearns. 

He died November 20, 1681, and his widow afterwards 
married Isaa.c Mixter of Watertown as his third wife. 

cniTjDREJf— FinST marriagb. 

1. Francis^, born in England about 1624. 

2. Elizabeth, " " 1629. 

3. Mary, " ** Jan., 1633. 

4. John, ** " Feb., 1635. 

5. Sarah, " Cambridge, Mass., in March, 1638. 

6. Jacob, " " March 16, 1640; m. Mary* 

Champtiey. 

7. Hannah, born in Cambridge April 12, 1641. 

8. Hannah, " " Feb. 16, 1644, 
9 Samuel, " " Dec. 3, 1645. 

10. Samuel, " " about 1648. 

C in: LDUEV— SECOND MARHIAGB. 

11. Mary, born iu Bilierica April 3, 1670. 

12. Sarah, " " Oct. 29, 1671. 

13. Abigail, " " April 14, 1673. 

14. Hannah, " " Jan. 25, 1676. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

SERGEANT JACOB- FRENCH, (LieuL IVilliain'), 
[son of William^ and Elizabeth French] was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., March 16, 1640, but lived in Bilierica. His 
house was one of the garrisons of 1675. He was a sergeant 
of the militia. 

He married (first), Mary^ Champney, daughter of 
Richard* Champney, ruling elder of the Cambridge Church. 



THE TUCKER GENEAL(JGY. 265 

She died April i, 1681, and he married (second) July 
30, 1685, Mary Converse, of Woburn. 

She died yune 18, 1686, and he married (third) Mary 
, who was drowned June 9, 1709, 

He married (fourth) Ruth , who died Novem- 
ber 6, 1730. He died May 20, 17 13. All his children 
were born in Billerica. 

CHILDREN"— FiKST MAnniAGK. 

1. Jacob'', born February 20, 1667. 

2. Wii/iam^ , born July 18. 1668; m. Sarab^ Daaforth. 

3. Mary, born October 6, i65g. 

4. John, born October 6, 1670. 

5. Joseph, born May 5, 1673. 

6. Jabez, born September 16, 1674. 

7. Mary, born March 5, 1677. 

8. Hannah, born October 23, 1678. 

9. Elizabeth, born June 8, 1679. 

10. Sarah, born March 7, 1681. 

CHILD— SECOND MARUIAGK. 

11. Abigail, born April 20, 1686. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



DEACON WILLIAM^ YKE^Cll {Jacob\ William'), 
[son of Jacob* and Mary^ (Champneyj FrenchJ was born 
in Billerica July 18, 1668. 

He married May 22, 1695, Sarah^ Danforth, [Jona- 
than", Nicholas'^), [daughter of Jonathan^ and Elizabeth'^ 
(Poulter) DanforthJ, who was born December 23, 1676. 

Her father was for many years the most eminent 
citizen of Billerica. 

William French was deacon of the charch and promi- 
nent in church and town affairs. 

He died September 30, 1723, and his widow afterwards 
married Ebenezer Davis of Concord. All his children were 
born in Billerica. 



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THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 



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I I 
12 



ciirLDUEisr. 

Jacob*, born May i6, i5g6. 

Joseph, born January 26, 1698. 

Sarah, born December 29, 1699. 

William, born January 25, 1701. 

Jonathan, born January 25, 1703. 

Elizabeth, born April 3, 1705. 

Ebenezer, born August 5, 1707, 

Mary, born October 7, 1709. 

Nicholas, born September 5, 171 1; m. Priscilla'- 

Mooar. 
Lydia, born April 29, 1714. 
Esther, born May 16, 1716. 
Samuel, born May 21, 1718. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

NICHOLAS* FRENCH, {William\ Jacob\ William^) 
[son ot William^ and Sarah ^ (Danforth) French] was born 
in Billerica September 5, 17 11; removed to Hollis, N. H., 
about 1 741. 

He married June 5, 1744, Priscilla Mooar, [daughter 
of Timothy^ and Ann'* (Blanchard) Mooar of Andover] 
who was born June 12, 1724. He was a member of the 
church in Hollis and held several minor town offices. 

His wife died February 18, 1784. He died August 
20, 1796. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Timothy^, born July 6, 1745. 

2. Priscilla, born October 2, 1747. 

3. Nicholas, born June 30, 1750. 

4. Isaac, born September i, 1752. 

5. Lucy, born April 21, 1755. 

6. Sarah, born August 3, 1758; died young. 

7. Jonathiin^ , born August 21, 1759; m. Mary^ Keyes. 

8. Sarah, born April 22, 1762. 

9. David, born October 28, 1765. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 267 

FIFTH GENERATION. 

JONATHAN^ FRENCH, {Nicholas^ \Villiam\ 
Jacob^ , IViliiain'^)^ [son of Nicholas^ and Priscilla^ 
(Mooar) French] was born August 2 i, 1759. 

He married in 1788 Mary" Keyes, {Abner'", Ezekiel"^ , 
Moses^ y Solomon^, Robert^), [daughter of Abner-^ and 
Mary^ (Shed) Keyes]. 

He was a soldier in the Revolution. Removed to 
Deering, N. H., about 1797, and to Fairfax (now Cam- 
bridge), Vt. , about 1806. 

He died September 18, 1835. She died Oct. 6, 1853. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Jonathan^, born January i, 1789. 

2. Maiy, born January 22, 1791. 

3. James, born February i, 1794. 

4. David, born December ig, 1796. 

5. Johti^ , born July 3, 1799; m. (ist), Eliza'' Whittemore 

6. Cynthia, born December i, 1801. 

7. Christopher, born October 22, 1804. 

8. Mark, born February 27, i8o3. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 

JOHN« FRENCH, {Jonathan^ Nicholas^ William^ 
Jacob" , William^), [son of Jonathan* and Mary^ (Keyes) 
French] was born July 3, 1799, in Deering, N. H. 

He was married (first), June i, 1822, to Eliza'' 
Whittemore, [Richard^ ^ Edmund^, Joseph*', DanieP , 
Daniel^, Thomas'^), [daughter of Richard" and Mary 
(Martin) Whittemore] who was born March 2, 1801, and 
died September 13, 1828. 

He married (second), November 5, 1829, Rhoda Coon, 
and she died April 19, 1843. 

He married (third), November 7, 1843, Jane M.** Mead. 

About 1820 he removed to St. Albans, Vt., where all 
his children were born. 

He died November 8, 1875, in St. Albans. 



26S THE TUCKKR OF.NEALOGY. 

CIIII^D -FIRST MABRIAGB. 

1. Sanford Byron'^ , born October 8, 1823; m, MaryA. •"' 

Mead. 

CHILDREN— SECOND mabriagb. 

2. Jane Eliza, born June 11, 1831; m. A. O. Brainard; 

died May 28, 1895. 

3. John Chandler, born July 3, 1836; m. April 16, 1862, 

Angeline Butler. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

SANFORD BYRON'' FRENCH, {JoJin\ Jonathan^ 
Nicholas'^ , William^, Jacob" , William'^) [son of John" and 
Eliza'' (Whittemore) French] was born at St. Albans, Vt., 
October 8, 1823. 

On August 10, 1847, he married Mary Ann^ Mead, 
(Abiel P."', Abfier^y Col. James^, Timothy'^, Jonathan^, 
lohn^, William^^, [daughter of Abial P.'' and Martha* 
(Davis) Mead] who was born July 18, 1826, in Essex, N, Y. 

About 1846 he removed to Maiden, Mass., where his 
two children were born, and in 1855 he removed to Wiona, 
now Maiden, 111. In 1874 he came to Chicago, where he 
now (1902) resides. 

Mrs. French died at 64 Warren Avenue, Chicago, on 
April I, 1 89 1. 

Congregationalist. Republican. 

CHILDREN. 

1. Mary Eliza^, born December- 22, 1849; m. May 2, 

1871, James M. ^ Sherman. 

2. Charles Sanford, born May 2, iSi^i; m. Helen Mabel^ 

Sherman, of Brodhead, Wis., (daughter of James 
Taylor'' and Abigail Talcott (Morgan) Sherman] 
who was born January 25, 1862. She died August 
10, 1890, and he died August 29, 1890, in Chicago, 

CIIU.DKEN. 

1. Helens, born January 25, 1889. 

2. Charles Sanford", Jr., born July 15, 1890; died Nov. 7, 1890. 



APPKNDIX. 



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THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 271 

APPENDIX "A." 
(see page 9) 



DEED OF WIIiljIAM HUNTINGTON TO MORKIS TUCKER. 

To Ai.i. CifRisiiAN People to whom this p'sent writing shall come, 
know ye that I, William Huntington of ye town of Salisbury in the County of 
Norfolk, Massachusetts in New England, husbandman, for and in consideration 
of ye sum of five teen pound sterling to mee in hann by a bill under the hand 
and seale of Morris Tucker att and before the signing and sealing hereof in full 
satisfaccon and for divers other good and lawful consideracons mee thereunto 
raoveing have bargained and sold, and do by these p'esents fully clearly and 
absolutely bargain and sell unto the said Morris Tucker my lot of upland lying 
and being w'th in ye bounds of Salisbury Newtown containing and estimacon 
thirty acres more or less, neare unto a place called cobbers Crooke lying 
between ye land of Edward Cottle to the west and the land of Phillip Challis 
on ye East butting Southerly upon ye Contrey high way leading to Haverhill, 
and with ye northermost end upon land of Henry Beasdall att S. E. a white 
markt at ye N. E. a black oake markt, at ye westerly corner a red oake at ye 
N. E. end an Ashe markt To have and to hold the said thirty acre lott of 
upland be it more or less bounded as aforesaid unto ye said Morris Tucker his 
heirs and assigns forever, and do by these p'sents for myself my heirs, execu- 
tors warrantize and maintaine ye said bargained p'misses unto the said Morris 
Tucker his heirs and assignes free from all manner of incumbrance whatsoever 
against all manner of sons whatsoever haveing, cliyming or p'tending to have 
any just right, title or interest into the said bargained p'misses or any part 
or parcell thereof forever. 

In witness whereof, I, the said William Huntington have hereunto set my 
hand and seale this tilth day of January one thousand six hundred and sixty- 
three. 

WILLIAM HUNTINGTON. 

This was acknowledged before ye court held in Salisbury, the Ilth of ye 
2nd Mo., 1665. Tiio. Bradbury, Rec 

Old Norfolk County, Mass., Records, Book 2, Leaf 3. 



IIIE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 

APPENDIX "B." 

(see page 9) 



DEED or MOERIS TUCKEK TO JOHN GILD. 

To AEi, Chkistian People to whom this p'sent writing shall come. 
Know ye yt, I Morris Tucker of ye towne of Salisbury, in ye county of 
Norfolk, Mass., in New England, Planter, for and in consideration of a valuable 
sum of good pay received of John Gill of ye same towne Planter, before ye 
day of ye date of these p'sents in full satisfaccon and for divers other good 
and lawfull consideracons me thereunto moveing have given, granted, bar- 
gained, sold, alienated enfofed and confirmed and by these presents do fully, 
clearly and absolutely give, grant, bargain, sell, alienate enfoefce and confirme 
unto ye sd John Gill all yt my lott of upland lying within ye bounds or p'cynct^ 
of Salisbury Newtowne containing Estimacon thirty acres be it more or less 
lying on ye westerly side of a little runn, commonly called Coblers brooke and 
upon ye land of Leift Challis, esterly with one end upon ye country highway 
leading to Haverhill southerly and ye other and butting northerly upon com- 
mon land being formerly ye lott of Wm. Huntington. To have and to hold ye 
said thirty acre lott of upland to ye sd John Gill his heirs and assignes forever, 
and I ye said Morris Tucker for myselfe my heirs, executors and administrators 
do covenant and promise to and with ye sd |ohn Gill his heirs and assignes yt 
ye sd bargained p'misses in free and cleare, and freely and clearly exonerated, 
discharged and acquitted of and from all former gifts, grants, bargaines sales 
alienations, changes, dowries, extents, judgments, execucons and of and from 
all former gifts, grants, bargaines, sales alienations changes, dowries, extents, 
judgments, executions and of and from all and other incumbrances wtsoever 
had made, suffered, omitted or done by mee ye sd Tucker or any other in by 
from or under me my heirs, executors or administrators, and I ye sd Morris 
Tucker, for myselfe my heirs, executors and administrators do hereby and 
shall from time to time and at all times hereafter warrantize and maintaine ye 
sd bargained p'misses agt all manner of sons wrsoever haveing, claymeing or 
p'tending to have any just right or interest unto ye said bargained p'misses 
or any part thereof in by fro or under mee my heires, executors or adminis- 
trators unto ye said John Gill his heirs and assigns forever. 

In witness whereof I ye sd Morris Tucker have hereunto sett my hand 
and scale this 29th day of ye 7th m, 1668. 

MORRIS TUCKER. 
ELIZ.\BETH TUCKER. 
Entered ye 16th day of July, 1670. 

Old Norfolk County, Mass., Records, Book 2, Leaf 187. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY. 273 

APPENDIX "C." 

(SEE PAGES 9-10) 



DEED OF MORRIS TUCKER TO JAMES TUCKER, 

To ALL Christian People unto whom this present deed shall come. 
Know ye, that I Morres Tucker of ye town of Salisbury in ye County of Essex 
of ye province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England, cooper for and in 
consideration of ye full and just summe of ten pounds in money to me in 
hand well and truly paid by James Tucker, my sonne of the same towne, 
county and province aforesaid ye receipt whereof I do acknowledge my selfe 
therewith to be fully satisfied contented and payd and thereof and from every 
part and parcell thereof for me, my heirs executors and administrators and 
assignes doe exonerate acquit and fully discharge ye sd James Tucker, his heirs 
& assignes firmly and forever by these presents have and doe hereby give 
grant and clearly and absolutely bargain sell, aliene enfe olfe convey and con- 
firme unto ye said James Tucker his heirs and assignes a certain peice, tract or 
parcell of upland and swamp lying and being scituate within ye boundes and 
township of Salisbury aforesaid neare a place commonly cald Munday Hill and 
is by estimacon ten acres be ye same more or less and is bounded all around 
every side by the common land, which tract or parcell of upland and swamp 
was granted to me ye said Morres Tucker, by ye commoners of ye towne of 
Salisbury aforesd with all rights privileges appurtenances thereunto belong- 
ing or any wayes appertaining. To have and to hold and peacably to be 
possessed and enjoyed by ye said James Tucker his heirs and assigns forever, 
and to his and their sole propper use, benefit and behoofe from henceforth and 
forever as a good firme, sure and absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple 
for every cry these presents and I ye said Morress Tucker for myselfe, my 
heirs, executors administrators and assignes doth promise, covenant and grant 
to and with ye said James Tucker his heirs and assignes that I ye said Morres 
Tucker is the right true sole and propper owner of ye same piece, trackt or 
parcell of upland and swamp with all ye rights privileges and appurtenances 
thereto belonging and hath in myself full power and lawful authority the same 
to bargaine sell aliene convey and confirme to ye said James Tucker, his heirs 
and assigns in manner and forme aforesaid and that the aforesaid bargained 
premises are at ye sealing and delivery thereof free and cleare and freely and 
clearly acquitted and discharged of and from all former, gifts, grants, bargaines, 
sales alienation, leases, mortgages, jointures, dowreys, wills, entails. Judg- 
ments, executions, and from all other titles, troubles, acts and entanglements 
and incumbrances, whatsoever and that ye said James Tucker his heirs and 
assigns shall and may from henceforth and forever hereafter peaceably and 
quietly have, hold, use, improve, possess and enjoy the peice, trackt, parcell 
of upland and swamp with all ye rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto 
belonging or any wages appertaining and that I the said Morress Tucker for 



274 THE TUCKER GENEALOCiY 

myselfe my heirs shall and will ever hereafter, warrantize, maintain and defend 
the aforebargained premises with every part and parcell thereof against al! 
manner of person or persons whatsoever, having, clayming or pretending to 
have any lawful claime thereto or interest therein or to any part or parcell 
thereof unto ye said James Tucker his heirs and assignes forever by these 
presents. 

In witness and for confirmation whereof I ye said Morres Tucker have 
hereunto set my hand and fixt my seale the seventh day of February in ye 
year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninety three four in the fifth 
yeare of ye Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord William ye third and Lady Mary 
ye second of England, Scotland, France, & Ireland. King and Queen defend- 
ers of ye faith. 

MORRIS TUCKER. (Seal) 

Signed, sealed & delivered in ye presence of 

Joseph Tucker. 
Joseph Page. 

Morris Tucker above mentioned personally appeared and owned this 
writing to be his act & deed this 25th day of March. Ann Doni 1695 
in ye 7th yeare of their Majesties Reigne. 

Before me, Robt. Pike, Justice of Peace. 

Old Norfolk County, Mass., Records, Book 13, Leaf 137. 



THE TUCKER GENEALOGY 275 

APPENDIX "D." 

(see page 16) 



Grant by His Excellency Sir John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of 
Nova Scotia, to Reuben Tucker, and one hundred and nineteen others, made 
on the 29lh day of January, 1801. 

[The land included by this grant is bounded on the east by the Town- 
ship of Clements and the Annapolis Basin. It includes all the Digby Neck to 
Petite Passage, all the south side of St. Mary's Bay to Sissiboo River from the 
mouth to about where the present Railway Bridge is situated, and from there 
both sides of the Sissiboo River to Mistake River]. 



Province of Nova Scotia. 

George the Third by the Grace of God and Great Britain, France and 
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c. 

To all the People to whom these presents shall come Greeting : 

Whereas alter the peace which took place in the year of our Lord 
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, divers of our faithful subjects 
before that time serving in armies or residing within places then out of our 
allegance being attached to our Royal person and Government, did come with 
their lamilies to reside within our Province of Nova Scotia, And Whereas it 
was our Royal pleasure that certain of our uncultivated lands within our said 
Province should be appropriated to the benefit of our said subjects. And 
Whereas we were pleased with the advice of our Council of our said Province 
amongst others to appropriate certain lands in the western part of the county 
of Annapolis to that purpose and to ascertain the bounds thereof, and desig- 
nate the same by the name of the Township of Digby, And Whereas by our 
Letters Patent bearing date the twentieth day of February in the year of our 
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, sixty-five thousand and six 
hundred acres of land within the said Township of Digby were granted to 
Amos Botsford and three hundred others subject to certain conditions in the 
said Letters Patent mentioned. And Whereas certain agents authorized by 
our Lieutenant Governor and Council of our said Proviuce did locate divers 
persons as well of the said three hundred and one grantees as others of the 
foregoing description of our subjects within the said towuship in such manner 
as the exigi^nce of affairs did at that time require and the then existing state 
of circumstances permit, to some of whom they apportioned the full quantity 
of land to which by our said Letters Patent or our Royal Proclamation they 
were entitled and to others only a part. ***** 

Unto Reuben Tucker lot number four, half of number five, and the 
whole of number six, thirteen and fourteen in division 0, containing four 
hundred and sixty-eight acres, and the locations marked BB and CC, con- 
taining seven hundred and fifty acres, making together twelve hundred and 
eighteen acres. ***** 



AUTHORITY— L'Acadie Journal, Weymouth Bridge, N. S., February 27, 1901. 



INDEX. 



Abercrombie, James 74 

Adams, Abigail S 93 

" John 93 

" John Q 93 

" Louisa C.J 93 

" Susannah B 93 

Albrecht, Barbara .... 166 

Alcock, Mrs 87 

Alden, Anna 1 S8 

Isaac... 161 

David 159 

E 161 

Elizabeth.. 154, 156, 158, 159, 

160 

John 93, 140, 156 to 161 

Jonathan 1 59 

Joseph 159, 161 

Mary 158, 159 

Mary S 159, 161 

Mehitable 161 

Mercy 161 

PriscillaM 93, 156 to 161 

Ruth 159 

Rebecca 159 

Sarah 159 

Zachariah. 158, 159 

Aldrich, Cerene M 242 

Allen, Amelia B 18 

" John ... 18 

" Mehitable 161 

Allerton, Isaac 1 40 

" John 140 

Alsop, Amy 1 79 

" Deborah 179 

" Elizabeth 179 

<' Hannah.... 173, 175, 176, 179 

" John 179 

" Richard 179 

" Capt. Richard 176, 179 

" Susannah 179 

" Thomas 179 



Alward, Sarah E 24 

" Silas 24 

Amherst, Lord 72, 74 

Anderson, Elizabeth 205 

Andre, Major 1 68 

Andros, Edmund 66, 116 

Joseph 240 

AppletoD , Isaac 14 

John ....35, 37 

Arbuthnot 80 

Archer, Ann E 18 

George 18 

" Joseph 18 

Arnold, Benedict 168 

" Thomas 62 

Atwood, Mary 150 

Austin, David 260 

" Emma 226 

" John 260 

" John 115, 148, 153, 160 

" Joseph 226 

" JuliaA 226 

Laura 226 

" Mary M 260 

Rebecca 259, 260 

Averill, John 253, 254 

" Mollie B 253 

" Sarah. 253 

Samuel 253 

" William 253 

Axtell, Hannah 114 

" Samuel 114 

Ayer, Samuel 39 

Babbitt, John 25 

" Margaret T 25 

Bailey, Emily 242 

" Harry H 205, 211 

" John 242 

" Josiah F 211 

Mary B 211 

" May E. D. 205 



?78 



INDEX. 



Baird 158 

Ball. Benjamin. 16 

Ballard, Abigail 220 

" Elizabeth 220 

" Grace 220 

" Hannah 220 

" Capt. Jeremiah 184 

" John 220 

Joseph 220 

" Lydia 220 

" Mary 220 

" Sarah 219,220,221 

" William 220 

Band, Agnes 183 

Banks, Amelia 230 

Clement 2i0 

" John 227, 230 

" Mary 227, 228, 230 

" Rachel 227 

' Ruhama 230 

" Samuel 230 

" Yandiver 230 

Barber, Amanda S 242 

" Calvin C 242 

Parnes, Daniel 259 

" Mollie 253 

" Mehitable 259 

" Rev. Oliver 241 

" Ruth. 241 

Barborie, Gertruyd 182, 183 

" John 182, 183 

Peter 184 

Barrel!, Anna 244 

Barron, Ellis 63 

'• Grace 63, 64 

Hannah 64 

" John 64 

Mary 61, 63, 64 

" Moses 64 

Peter 64 

" Sarah 64 

" Susanna 64 

Barrow, Benjamin 1 58 

Henry 139 

" Priscilla 158 

Barry, Mr 143 

Bartlett, Christopher 37, 38 

Barton, Rev. Thomas 223 



Bass, Elizabeth N 252 

" Hannah 251, 252, 253 

" John 252 

" Samuel 252 

" Thomas 252 

Bassett, Hiram 209 

" Lillian C 203, 204, 2u9 

" William 96 

Batt, Christopher 33 

Bayard, Thomas F 143 

Bayley, John 30 

" Capt. Timothy 178 

Beach, Rev. Abraham 171 

Bellingham, Richard 233 

Bemis, John 54 

" Joseph 54 

" Mary H 54 

" Susanna 54 

Bett, Grace 233, 234 

Betts, Elizabeth 175, 176, 178 

" Joanna.... 178 

" Martha 178 

" Mary. 178 

" Mary W 178 

" Capt. Richard 175, 178 

" Sarah 178 

" Thomas 175,178 

Bigelow, Hannah 61 

Billington, John 140 

Bird, Mehitable 135 

Birdsey, Hannah S 242 

Harry 242 

Bisliop, Hester C 95 

" John 95 

" Temperance 95 

" Temperance L 95 

Blackbourne, Walter 55 

Blackraer, John 99 

Blaisdall, Henry 271 

Blake, Agnes 135, 136 

" Ann 128, 130, 136 

" Anna 135, 136 

" Dorothy 134 

•' Edward 135, 136 

" Elizabeth 135,245 

'* Experience 136 

" Francis E 134 

" Giles 134 



INDEX. 



279 



Blake, Hannah 123,136 

" James 135 

" John 135 

" Joseph 135 

" Mary 136 

" Mehitable 135, 136 

'• Nathaniel 136 

" Samuel 136 

" Susan 136 

" Winiam....l28, 134, 135, 136 

Blanchard, Ann 266 

Blauvelt, Cornelius 166 

Blinn, John 27 

" Margaret M 27 

Bliss, Phebe 91 

Bloomfield, John 177 

Samuel 177 

Sarah 174, 175, 177 

William 174, 177 

Bodge, Geo. M.42,46, 68,178,243, 256 

Bolton, Rev. Robert 188 

Bond, Henry. 54, 58, 62, 64, 256, 258 

Bondreau, Adelia M 28 

Carrie H 25 

Edmund J 28 

Frederick E 28 

" Frederick L 28 

" Lizzie M 28 

" Margaret 27 

" Margaret M 28 

Ophelia A 28 

" Timothy 27 

William V 28 

Bordley, Delmar 205,212 

Isabel! 212 

" John 212 

Borland, Jane 90 

Botsford, 78 

Boulston, Sergt 127 

Bourne, Abigail S 98 

" Bathsheba 70, 98, 103 

" Bathsheba H 70, 98, 105 

" BathshebaS 97,99 

" Desire C 71. 97, 98, 100 

" Elisha 97 

'« Ezra 97 

" Job 97 

«' John 98 



Bourne, Mary 97 

" Melatiah..71,97, 98, 100, 103 

Patience 97 

" Remembrance 97 

" Richard 96,97,98,99 

" Ruth S. W 97 

" Samuel 98 

" Sarah 97, 98 

" Shearjashub 97,98,99 

" Silas 98 

" Sylvanus 98 

Boutell, Lewis H 256, 258 

Bowen, Elizabeth 234 

" Elizabeth J 234 

' Lieut. Henry 234 

Bowles. JohQ 56 

Boylston, Ann W 93 

Peter • 93 

" Susannah 93 

Boynton, Nathan 13 

Bradbury, Thomas 9, 30, 32, 271 

Mary 10 

Bradford, Alice H 137 

" Alice C 143, 148, 149 

" Alice R 146, 148 to 151 

" Alice 149 

" Ann 115, 116 

" David 149 

" Dorothy 137, 141 

" Elizabeth 151 

Ephraim 149 

" Gamaliel 151 

" Gershom 151 

" Hannah R..130, 148, 149 

150, 152, 160 

" Hannah. .111, 148, 149, 150, 

152, 160 

" Hezekiah 149 

" Israel 149 

" Jerusha 151 

" John 139, 146, 149 

" Joseph.. 146, 149 

" Mary 149 

" Mary A 150 

" Meletiah 149 

" Mercy 146, 149 

" Perez 151 

" Samuel ..130, 148-155, 160 



280 



INDEX. 



Bradford, Sarah 1 49 

" Thomas 115, 149 

" Welthea 151 

" William 149 

" Gov. Wm..l01, 102, 104, 

130, 137, 139-150, 153,158 

" Maj. Wm...l30, 137, 146, 

148, 149, 150, 151 

Bradstreet, Ann 90 

Hannah 219 

" Humphrey 219 

Lucy 90 

LucyW 90 

Mercy T 90 

Samuel 90 

Simon 90 

Bradley, Mary 211 

Brainard, A. 268 

Jane E. F 268 

Brattle, Capt. Thomas 256 

Brayley, James 24 

Relief A 24 

Bretney, Clarissa C 224 

Brewster, Wil'iam 137-141, 145 

Briant, Captain 14 

Briggs, Thomas 114 

Bright, Anna 66 

" Henry 66 

Britteridge, Richard 1 40 

Brown, Henry 30 

" Lydia 102 

" Polly 241 

«' Peter 140 

Richard 39 

" Robert 139 

Browne, A 60 

" Philip 34 

Browning, Marah 154 

Brundrett, Alexander B 226 

Laura A 226 

Peter 158 

Bryant, William Cullen 158 

" Frances 1 158 

Budd, Margaret 24 

Burge, Margaret 56 

Burnap, Mary 250, 25 1 , 253 

Burnet, Governor 1 80, 193 

Burnham, Charles E 24 



Burnham, Pamelia T 24 

William 17 

Burns, Ann E 18 

" Amelia 18 

" Annie H 18 

" Albert 18 

" Charles 18, 19 

" Clarissa 18, 19 

" Douglas 19 

" Edward 19 

" Elizabeth M. 19 

" Felix 19 

" Isaac 18, 19 

" Jacob 18 

" James 19 

" Jane M 19 

" John 19 

" Jurchia 19 

" Katherine 18 

" Levina IS, 19 

" Maria 18 

" Mary 19 

" Matilda 19 

" Norman 19 

" Paulinas 18 

•' Relief 18 

" Robert 19 

" Sarah 19 

" William 18 

Burr, Aaron 189 

Burritt, Betsey 24 1 

Buswell, Isaac 30, 32, 33, 34, 35 

Margaret 30, 3i 

Mary 34 

Phebe 9, 34 

Samuel 34, 35 

Sarah 34 

Susanna i3 

William... 30, 32, 3.3, 34, 35 

Butler, Angeline 268 

Buttcrlield, Azuba 221, 222 

" Benjamin 221 

Eleazer 221 

" Joseph 221 

Mary W. 221 

Cairns, Alice 25 

" Rev. J. A 25 

Calkins, F. M 178 



INDEX. 



281 



Calnek, W. A 73 

Campbell, Lord Neil 1 86 

Canby, Huldah 241 

Cann, Clara 211 

Carleton, General 78 

Carpenter, Alice 143, 148, 149 

Alexander 143 

Carrick, Rev. John 224 

Carver. Gov. 101,102,104,140-144,146 

Gary, Elizabeth 109 

Case, Charles H 17 

" Laura P. F 17 

Cassaboom, Charles 19 

Enoch 19 

" George 19 

John 19 

Margaret 19 

Mary 19 

Sarah 19 

Caswell, Thomas 119, 120, 121 

Chadwick, E. S 27 

Chaffee. Hannah M 235 

John 235 

" Joseph 235 

Sarah 235, 2i(, 

" Thomas 235 

Challis, Lieut. Philip 271, 272 

Chamberlain, Annie 28 

" Curtis 28 

Emily Tucker 28 

" George 28 

Vincent 28 

Champney, Judge 13 

Mary 264 

Richard 264 

Channing, Lucy E 90 

" William 90 

'« William E 90 

Cheney, Abigail W 55 

Altie W 55 

" Charles E 55 

" Clara 55 

*• Ellen 57 

" Ephraiin W 55 

" Hannah 55 

" Hannah T 55 

'■ John 57 

' Joseph 55, 57 



Cheney, Lavinia S 55 

" Margaret 53 to 57 

" Mehitable 57 

" Nathan 55 

" Thomas 57 

" William 53, 55, 56, 57 

Chestnut, Helen B. F 25 

" Henry 25 

Chickering, Rev. Mr 246 

Child, Ephraim 92 

•' John 61 

'• Mary 61 

Chilton, James 1 40 

«• Richard 141 

Chipman, Bethia 100 

" Desire.. 71, 97, 98, 100, 103 

" Elizabeth 100 

*' Hannah 100 

•« Hope 98, 100 

•« John 98, 100, 102, 103 

•' Lydia 100 

«• Mercy 100 

" Ruth 100 

" Samuel 100 

" Thomas iOO 

Church, Rev. F. H 212 

Churchman, Ann. .152, 153, 154, 155 

" Hugh 153, 155 

Chute, W. E 103, 148, 152, 160 

Clap, Elizabeth 135 

Clark, AnnaB 242 

Clarke, Hannah 243 

" Margaret 243 

" Richard 140 

" William 243 

Clayton, Clara C 211 

" Lillian J 205 

" Richard 211 

Cleveland, Aaron 52 

Abiah H 52 

" Abigail W 52 

«' Anne N 52 

'• Frances F 52 

" Margaret F 52 

Richard F 52 

" Stephen G 52 

'' Susan P 52 

" William 52 



2S2 



IN'DI'X. 



Clothier, David Pye 169 

Cobb, Kuthrine 133 

" William H 69 

Coburn, Susan A 161, 247 

Coddington, Mrs. 87 

Cogswell, Adam 95 

Alice 9+ 

Ann 93,95 

Edmund 95 

Edward 93. 9 

Elizabeth 93, 94, 95 

" Elizabeth! 94,95 

*' Hannah 94 

" Hester 95 

" Johannah 93 

John 93, 94, 95 

" Jonathan 95 

Mary 93, 94 

Sarah 94,95 

" Susanna 69, 93. 95 

" Susanna H.. 93, 94. 95, 96 

■t William.... 93, 94, 95. 96 

Colden, Cadwalder 174 

Connolly, Elizabeth 231 

Converse, Edward 236 

" James 236 

" Jesse 236 

" Josiah 236 

Pamela 235,236 

Mary M 236 

" Mary 265 

Cook, Colonel 239 

Cooke, Francis 1 40 

•« Sarah J. 26 

Coon, Rhoda 267 

Coopers, James 131 

Coppin, John 1 39 

Corliss, Ann 44 

'« AW 43 

" Deborah 44 

" George 43 

" Huldah 44 

" Johanna....40, 41,42, 43, 44 

" Johanna 1) 43, 44 

" John 44 

" Martha 44 

«' Mary 43 

<' Sarah 44 



Cornell, Mary 173 

Cornwall, Edmund 19 

" Matilda 19 

Cosley. Governor 194 

Cottle, Edward 271 

Cotton, Constance C 59 

" Prudence W 58 

" Seaborn 59 

Crackston, John 140 

" Benjamin 251 

" Deborah G. 251 

Crane, Ebenezer 114 

" John C 134 

" Jonathan. 251 

" Nathan 133 

" Sarah 250. 251, 252 

Crittenden, Rev. Mr 203 

Crosby, Anthony 58 

" Constance. 59 

" Prudence W 58 

" Rachel M 225 

Cummings, 78 

Curtis, Mary 64 

♦' William 64 

Cutler, Rebecca 257 

Dakin, Amaret 25 

»♦ Augusta S 26 

" Charles T 26 

" Daniel 25 

♦' Edward H 26 

" Gilbert R 25 

'« Gustavus W 2G, 21 

" John 25 

" John L 26 

" Lalia 24, 26 

" Sarah J. 26 

" Sarah W 25 

'« Welthe A 25 

" V/elthe R 27 

Danfortli, Elizabeth 265 

" Jonathan. 2o5 

" Nicholas 265 

'« Samuel (Rev.) 56 

•' Sarah 265. 266 

•' Thomas 131 

Davenport, Nathaniel 54 

Davis, Christian 43, 44 

■' Ehcnezor 165 



iNi)i:x. 



283 



D;ivis, Joanna 43, 44 

" Joseph 44 

" Judith 36 

" Martha. 268 

" Sarah D 265 

" Thomas 43, 44 

" W. T..103, 124,125, 148, 152 

Day, Rev. Jeremiah 259 

" Martha 259 

Dean, Joseph 109 

" Samuel. 131 

Deane, Charles 144 

Denison, Major 178 

Dennis, William 139 

Dennison, Cassie M 25 

" Daniel 92 

Depew, Chauncey M 257 

" Isaac 257 

" Martha M. 257 

Dexter, Thomas 48 

Dickson, David F 231 

" Eliza McC....2I2, 231, 2^2 

" Ethel 2Z2 

" George L. 231 

'• Hazel 222 

" John 212, 231, 232 

" John M. 231 

" Laura A J 231, 232 

Laura 232 

" May Gertrude. 2C6, 212, 231 

«' Moncrief.. 232 

" Warren P. 231 

" William H. 206, 212, 231,232 

" William L 2?2 

Dieskau, (Baron) 72, 74 

Di,a:hton, Catherine. 90, 91 

" John 91 

Dodge, A 59 

Done, Victoria 28 

Dorecty, John T 29 

" Julia A 29 

" Sarah E 29 

Doughty, Palmer. 131 

Douglas, Captain ... 21 

" Stephen A 59 

Dow, Ann S. 40, 41, 42 

" April 41 

" David. 41 



Dow, Elizabeth 41 

" Hannah 38, 39,41 

" Johannah.ll, 12, 16, 40, 41,43 

'* John 40,41 

" Jonathan 41 

" Joseph 42, 43 

'♦ Martha ...11, 36,40,41 

" Mary 40 

" Mary Hutchins 41,43 

" Nathaniel 41 

" Phebe 36, 40 

" Reuben 14,47 

'* Richard 41 

" Ruhama 41 

" Samuel 41 

" Stephen 12, 40-43 

" Thomas 12,36,40,41, 42 

" Timothy 41 

Drake, Francis S 65, 66, 67, 89 

«« Samuel 67 

Draper, Catherine C. T.202, 203, 205, 

211, 212 

*' Delmar B. D 205, 212 

" Edmund.. 203, 205,211, 212 

'* Elizabeth A 205 

•' JohnE 205, 212 

" John 205,211, 212 

" Lillian J C 205, 211 

" May E 205, 211 

•• Robert 205 

" William W 205,211 

Drummond, .Ann 90, 92 

" J. H.. 148, 152, 154, 160 

Dudley, Catherine D 90, 91 

" Deborah 92 

" Dorothy 84, 90, 91 

" Joseph 90,92 

" Mercy 68, 84, 92 

" Patience 92 

" Paul 92, 108 

" Rebecca 90 

" Capt. Roger 85 

" Samuel 92 

" Sarah 93 

" Thomas ..84, 85, 88, 90, 91 

Dudlow, Joseph 243 

Dunbar, Amelia B 18 

" Ditmars 18 



284 



INUHX. 



Dunham, Evelina T 24 

•' Persis 118 

" William G 24 

Dunther, Charles 193 

Durland, John 82 

Dyott, Clarence 212 

" Deborah 212 

" Mrs. Delmar B 205, 212 

•• William H 212 

Eastman, Rodger 30 

Ebbert, Emma A 226 

«• George E 226 

Ebrington, Christina 184, 195, 197 

Christina R..195, 197, 198 

•« Elizabeth 197 

•' Francis 195, 197, 193 

Edwards, Dr. Robert 211 

Eliot, Rev. John 56, 64, 96 

" Philip 65 

«' Chas. W 144 

Ellery, Ann R 90 

" Lucy 90 

" William 90 

Elliott, Edmond 30 

Ellison, Capt. Thomas 174 

Elwell, Ebenezer 239 

" Mary D 239 

Emerson, Edward 94 

•• Ellen L. T 94 

•• Joseph 94 

" Mary M 94 

Phebe B 94 

" Ralph W 94 

«' Rebecca W 94 

" Ruth JI 94 

William 94 

Emery, S. H..105, 115, 116, 126, 

127, 129, 134 

Emery, Zachariah 21 

Endicott, John 85 

Evans, John Q 10 

" Capt. John 173 

Evarts, Jeremiah 259 

" Mehitahle S 259 

Hon. William M 254 

Everett, James 169 

Fairchild, Frances 158 

Fales, Amos 24 



Fales, Evelina T 24 

Fales 80 

Falley, Margaret 52 

Farnham, Levina 18 

•' Maria 18 

William 18 

Farnsworth, Abigail 45, 46 

" Andrew 17 

Ann R 17 

'' Benjamin 45 

David.... 16, 46,47, 55 

Elizabeth 45 

" Eunice 47 

" Hannah 47 

Hannah H....16. 46, 55 

" Jonathan 17, 45 

Laura P 17 

" John 45 

" Joseph 45 

" Joshua 46 

Marie S 17 

MaryF 44. 46, 48.50 

Mary 45, 46, 47 

Mary W 45 

Mathias.l6, 44, 45,46,48 

Relief ... 14, 16, 23. 47 

" Samuel. . ..16, 45, 47, 50 

Sarah 45 

Stephen 46 

Farr, Ann W 44, 48 

" Benjamin 48 

" Elizabeth S 48 

" Elizabeth 48 

" George 44, 47, 48 

" John 48 

" Joseph 48 

" Lazarus 48 

" Martha 48 

" Afary 46,48 

" Phebe 48 

" Sarah 48 

Farrand, John 1 69 

Fellows, Carrie ET 247 

Fred 247 

Samuel 32, 35 

Files, Addie AT 248 

" Lottie M 24S 

" Susie A 248 



rxDi'X. 



285 



Files, T. Herbert 248 

" True H 248 

Fish, Elizabeth S 175 

" Hamilton 175 

" Jonathan 175 

" Col. Nicholas 175 

Fisher, Anthony 245 

" David 245 

" Eliezer 245 

" Elizabeth W T 24$ 

" Mary A 245 

" Nathaniel 245 

Fiske, Abigail 61, 62 

" Alice H. 59 

" David 61 

" Dorothy S 60 

" Elizabeth 61, 62 

«* Esther 60 

" Hannah 61, 62 

" James, Jr 59 

•' John 59, 60, 62 

" Lydia 61, 62 

" Martha 60 

" Mary 61,62,63 

" Mary W 55, 61 

" MaryC 61 

" Nathan 54, 61 

" Nathaniel... 54, 59, 61, 62. 63 

" Robert... 59 

" Sarah 47,54.61,62 

" Simon 59 

" Susanna 60, 61 

" Symond 59 

" William 59 

Fitz Randolph, Amira D. T 25 

Archibald 25 

Flagg, Abigail 61 

Fletchers, Captain 14 

Folsom, Frances C 52 

F'owle, Abraham 83 

" Elizabeth S3 

" George 66, 82 

" Hannah 65, 67, 83 

" Jacob 83 

" James 83 

" John 83 

" Mary 66,83 

" Peter .. 83 



Fowle, Zachariah 82 

Fowler, Sarah H 82 

'• Thomas 33 

Frake R 60 

Freeman, Mrs. R 228 

French, Abigail 264, 265 

" Angeline B 268 

" Charles S 268 

" Christopher 267 

" Cynthia 267 

" David 266, 267 

" Ebenezer 266 

" Eliza W 267,268 

" Elizabeth .263, 264, 265, 266 

" Esther 266 

" Frances 264 

" Hannah. 264, 265 

" Helen MS 268- 

" Helen 268 

" Isaac 266 

" Jabez 265 

" Jacob 265-268 

" Serj Jacob 262, 264 

" James 267 

" Jane E 268 

" JaneM. M. 267 

" John. 262, 264, 265, 267, 268 

" John C 268 

" Jonathan 262, 266-268 

" Joseph 265, 266 

" Lucy 266 

" Lydia 266 

" Mark 267 

" Mary 264-267 

" Mary A 262 

" Mary A. M 268 

" Mary C 264, 26'^ 

" Mary E 216, 262, 26S 

Miry L 264 

" Mary K 266 

" Nicholas . .262, 266, 267, 268 

" Priscilla 266 

" Priscilla M 266,267 

" Rhoda C 267 

Ruth 265 

" Samuel 262, 266 

" Sanford B 262, 268 

" S:irnh 264, 265, 2^6 



2.S(, 



i\i)i:\. 



French, Sarah D 2bS, 2bi> 

" Timothy 266 

" William 262, 264-268 

Deacon William 265 

" Lieut. William 262-264 

Freyberger, Naacy N 224 

Martiu 224 

Frizzle, Hannah C 243 

" William 243 

Fuller, Benjamin 246 

Elisha 246 

" Elizabeth 135,245,246 

" Hannah -...135,246 

Jonathan 246 

" Louise 246 

Robert 246 

'< Samuel 246 

" Sarah 246 

Gerow, Catherine 1 69 

" Reynan 166 

" Rynier 169 

Gilbert, Abigail 134 

'< .-^nn 130 

" George 131, 132 

" Gylei \26 

" Hannah. .Ill, 130, 132, lU, 
148, 150, 151, 152, 160.^ 

" Jane 128, 136 

" John 111. 126, 127 

" Joseph 126 

" Mary 126, 130, 133. 134 

" Mehitable 130 

" Nathaniel. Ill, 129-134, 148, 
ISO. 151, 152, 160. 

" Samuel 130, 132-134 

Sarah 130 

" Thomas... Ill, 126-134, 136 
" Welthe...lll, 134, 148, 160 

\Vinilrod 126, 127 

(iiil, lienjatnin 31 

" I'.lizabelh 9, 10, 31 

'• liaac 31 

" John 9, 30, 31, 33, 34, 272 

" Moses 31 

" Phebe 9, 30, 31, 32 

" Phebe B 30, 31, 34 

' • Samuel 31 

" Sarah 51 



Gilpin, Elizabeth 25 

" .Mary 25 

" W. S 25 

Godfrey, Mary 132 

" Richard 108 

Goodrich, Charity 242 

Goodwin, John A.. 104, 125, 138, 145 

Gould, A. A 13 

Grant, U. S 1 75, 259 

Graves, Benjamin . . .241 

Clarissa 237, 241 

" Curaelius 241 

" Eunice H 241 

" John 241 

" Jo.seph 241 

Greeley, Andrew 35 

Green, F. B 1 77 

Greenwood, John 1 39 

Griswold, Clara E 55 

«* Deborah 251 

Guile, Judith 36 

" Judith Davis 36 

" Samuel 36 

Gunsaulus, Frank W 5 

Hacivourn, Caiherine D 90, 91 

Samuel 91 

Haines, Charles 26 

" James 26 

" Jane T 2s 

lanet B 26 

" RehefR 26 

Roiaud k 26 

Hale, Euiiice 241 

Hales, Col. Enoch 14 

Hall, Benjamin 121 

" CnarlesA 29 

" Hattie G. T 248 

•' Frank M 248 

" Loltie M 248 

" Walter F 248 

" Wellhe R 29 

Haliett, Andrew 97, 98, 99 

" Bathsheba 97, 99 

" Dorcas 99 

Hannah 99 

" John 99 

" Jonatnan. 99 

Joseph 9'> 



ixni'x. 



Hallett, Josiah yy 

" Mary 98 

" Samuel 99 

Halloways, Malicai 132 

Halverson, Susan. 242 

Hamilton, Alexander 189 

Elizabeths 189 

Hammond, Abigail 54, 59 

Abigail H 59 

Abigail S 58 

Ann 58 

'' Andrew 78 

Elizabeth 57-59 

Hannah 59 

Hepzibah 59 

John 54, 58, 59 

" Marie 57 

Martha 57 

" Nathaniel 59 

Prudence C 58 

Rose 57 

Rose T 57, 58 

Samuel 59 

•' Sarah 58, 59 

" Sarah N 58 

" Susan 57 

Thomas 57, 58 

Hankinson, George 19 

Sarah J 19 

Hanson, Alice 137 

William 57, 58 

Harrington, Lydia 61' 

Mary 51 < 

Harris, John 78 

Harrison, Sarah 28 

Hartwell, Elizabeth ....257, 258, 260 

" Joseph 258 

" Mary T 258 

" Samuel 258 

William 258 

Harvey, James 131 

Harwood, Elvira M 254 

" Harriet 254 

Southworth 254 

Hassaltine, John 39 

Hastings, Abigail 54 

Abigail H 53, 54 

'* Benjamin... 5.^ 



Hastings, Elizabeth 53, 54 

" Eunice 55 

" Hannah 16, 46, 47, 55 

" Hepzibah 53, 54 

John 47, 53-55, 62 

Joseph 53, 54 

" Margaret C 53,54,57 

Mary 55 

" Nathaniel 53,55 

'' Samuel 53, 54 

«' Sarah F.47, 54, 55, 61, 62 

" Susanna. 53, 55 

" Susanna B 54 

Thomas 47,53-57 

Harshman. Eva 230 

William 53, 54 

Haskins, Ruth 94 

Hathaway, Abigail Ill 

Abraham.82, 105, 106, 109, 
110, 111, 116, 117.. 
" Anna 28 

Benjamin. ..106, 108, 111 

Calvin L 24,28, 112 

" Ebenezer.82,106 110-118, 

134, 148, 152, 160.. 
" Edward 105 

Eleazer 106, 108 

Gideon 105 

'« Gilbert 112 

•' Hannah.... 105, 111, 112, 
114, 122 

John 82, 104-111 

" Julia C 24 

" Luther 112 

" Mary 112 

Rebecca 106-110, 116 

Richard 23 

" Samuel 10b 

Sarah H 24,' 28 

Shadrach 106,112 

Silas 111,114 

' S. W 105 

Thomas. 105, 106, 108, 109 
" Tryphena 112 

WeUhe.23, 71,82,103,112, 
I3i, 134, 148, 152, 160 

WeitheG.82, 148, 152, 160 
Hauser, 78 



2SS 



INDI'.X. 



Haveus, Manila S 242 

«' William H 242 

Hay, Ann Hawk 1 67 

Hayes, R. B 259 

Hay ward, Abigjail 158 

Hawkes, Adam 94-96 

" Ann H 95,96 

" Benjamin 96 

" John 95, 96 

'« Moses 96 

" Sarah H 95, 96 

" Susanna 93-96 

'• Thomas 96 

Hawkins, Hannah 64 

«' Timothy 64 

Hawksworth, David 19 

" Sarah 19 

Heath, Isaac 56 

«' Joseph 36 

" Martha 36 

Heford, Kate 226 

Helm, Sarah 82 

Henchman, Capt. Daniel 67, 105 

Henel, Alice 59 

Heriman, Martha 38 

Hewsome, Grissie 233 

Hibbard, A. G 161, 250 

Abel 252 

" Abigail 249, 250 

" Adoniram J 248,254 

<• Anna 251, 252 

Asa 252,253 

" David 250 

" Deborah 251 

Diah ....248, 252, 253, 254 

" Ebenezer 250 

Hlisha 251 

Elizabeth 249 

Ella E..135, 161, 215, 247, 

248,254 

'' Emma 254 

'' Enoch 253, 254 

" Eunice 252 

'' (jeorge 254 

" Gideon 251 

Hannah 250-254 

" Harriet . . 254 

" lie/pki;ih 252 



Hibbard, jabez 252 

" Jerusha 252 

" Joan 249 

" John 249, 240 

'• Jonathan 251 

" Joseph 249, 250 

" Joshua 250 

" Josiah 250 

" Laura M 254 

Lovedy R 248,254 

Lucy ...252,253 

Lydia 250-252 

" Lyman 252 

" Martha 250 

Mary 249-253 

«' Mary B 250-253 

" Mary R 250,251 

«' Mary W 249-251 

*' Melissa 254 

" Milan 252 

" Nathaniel 248-254 

" Paul 251 

" Peninnah 252 

" Robert 248-254 

Roswell 254 

Samuel 249-254 

" Sarah 249-254 

" Seth 250 

Sybil 252 

Zebulon 248, 251-254 

" Zilpah 252 

Hickox, Mary 11 239 

Mehitahle 238 240 

" Samuel 239 

William 239 

Hicks, John 172 

Hill, Amaret 27 

" Beulah E 27 

'« Robert 27 

Hinman, R. k 178 

Hoar, r.enjamin 12 

" Ebenezer R 259 

•« Elizabeths 259 

" George F 259 

" Samuel 259 

Hobert, Peter (Rev.) 39 

Hodges, Susannah 1 29 

William 129 



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Hoffman, Catherine 166, 172 

Christina 172 

Gertruyd S 166 

Harmanus 166, 172 

John 172 

Jury 172 

l^aya 172 

Mary G. S 172 

Rachel 172 

William 172 

Holden, David 21 

Holdsworth, Lucy 18 

" Thomas 18 

Hollister, Abigail 238, 239 

Abigail T 238 

" John 238 

" Stephen 238 

Holmes, Abiel 90, 95 

Ann R 17 

David 9S 

Frances L 17 

Frank F 17 

Fred 11 17 

Horace M 17 

Jessie R 17 

Margaret 17 

Mary A • • • • 150 

Mary W. H 17 

Norman V 17 

Oliver W 90, 95 

Sarah W 90, 95 

SollisP 17 

Sollis R 17 

" Temperance B 17 

" William H 17 

Holt, Abigail • • • 220, 221 , 222 

" Almira 222 

♦ ' Amasa 222 

" Anna 22\ 

" Azuba B. S 221, 222 

" Benjamin 220 

" Clark Morris 206, 212 

" Dinah 220 

" Elijah 222 

" Elizabeth 219,220 

" Fifield 221 

" George 220 

" frraoo Fveiina 206 



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" Hannah R 206, 221 

" Henry 206,212,219-222 

" Henry H.203, 206, 212, 222,232 
" Humphrey... 206, 212, 220-222 

" Ira 206,212,222 

" Ira Gilbert 206 

" James 219, 220, 222 

" John 219 

" Jonathan.... 206, 212, 221, 222 

" Josiah 220 

" Keturah 220 

" Marion Isabel 206 

" Martha A 222 

" Martha P 219 

" Mary 219 

" May Gertrude. . . .206, 212, 232 

" Mehitable. 221 

" Nicholas 206, 212, 219-222 

" Nicholas, Jr 219 

" Oliver 220 

" Paul 220 

" Priscilla 219 

" Rachel 221 

" Rachel T 221 

" Rebecca 219 

" Rhoda 222 

' ' Roxanna 222 

" Samuel 219 

" Sarah 220, 221 

" Sarah B 219-221 

" Sarah M 222 

" Shuabel 221 

" Susannah 22\,222 

" WeltheR.T.203,206, 212, 222, 

232 

" William 22^222 

" Zerviah 220 

Holton, David P 72 

Hooker, Thomas 87 

Hooper, Anne 1 92 

" Christina E...184. 195, 197 
" Maj. Daniel. 184,192,193,194 

Eleinor 192 

" Elizabeth 192 

" Isabella .171, 184, 194, 195, 

197 

" Jacob R 197 



290 



i\r)i-;\. 



Hooper, James 191 

'« John . ..192 

" Mary 192 

" Reginald 197 

Reynold « 197 

" Robert L 184.192-197 

" S;aah ....95, 192, 193, 194 

" William. 192 

Hopkins, Rev. John H 216 

" Mary 239 

" Oceanus 146 

" Samuel 136 

Hoskins, William 1 50 

Hosley, James 21 

Hotchkiss, Adonijah 24 1 

" Chauncey 241 

«' Sylvia 241 

'« Thankful 241 

Houser, Barbara 1 66 

'' Johannes 166 

Rowland, Arthur 101, 103 

Desire 102 

" Elizabeth T 100, 102 

" Franklin 101,103 

" Hannah 102 

Henry 101, 103 

" Hope. ...98, 100, 102. 103 

" Humphrey 101 

" Isaac 102 

" Jabez 102 

John 100-104 

" Joseph 102 

" Lydia 102 

Ruth.... 102 

Hoyt, David W.. ..10, 30, 33, 40-44 

" John 30,43 

Hubbard, William 143 

Hudson, Mary 52 

Hughes, Annie 18 

Hull, Catherine 228 

" Elizabeth. . . 225, 227, 228, 230 

" Eva 230 

" John 230 

" Mary 230 

" Peter 228,229 

" Sally 230 

Hunt, Rev. Christopher 165 

Hunter, Joseph 144 



Huntington, William 9, 271, 272 

Iluse, , 12 

Hustis, Sophia . 27 

Hutchins, Andrew 43 

" Benjamin 42 

«' Elizabeth 42 

'• Frances 42, 43 

*• Johanna C 42,43 

" Johanna 40,41,43 

" John 42,43 

" Joseph 41-43 

" Levi 42 

*• Mary 12, 41, 43 

" Samuel.. 42,43 

'• William 42 

Hutchinson, Ann 94. 95 

" Julia A 27 

«' Kate L 27 

Lena E 27 

" Nettie B 27 

" Nina B 27 

Thomas 144, 145 

" William A 27 

«' William H 27 

Hutchison, John 82 

Huxley, Amaret 25 

" D. H .. 25 

Hyde, Abiah 52 

Ingraham, Rev. J. P. T 213, 215 

Jackson, Mary 90 

Jay, John 240 

Jenkins, Hannah L 247 

John, Mary 230 

Johnson, Elizabeth 234 

" Louise C 93 

•' Seth 21 

" William 72, 74 

Johnstone, Andrew. 171, 181-185, 188 

" Anne 183 

" Augustus S 185 

" Catherine 182,183,185,188 

" Catherine V. C...181, 184 

Christina R. 170, 171, 185, 

201 

" David 182 

" Elizabeth 182, 183 

" Euphemia 1 83 

Kuphemia S.179, 181, 186 



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201 



Johnstone, George 181 

Gertrude 182, 183 

Isabel 181 

Isabella 185 

Isabella H. 171,183,184,197 

James 181 

Janet 181 

John... 171, 179-186, 197 

katherine 181 

Lewis 181 

Margaret 181. 183 

Mary ..181, 182, 183, 185 

Robert H 185 

Stephen 182, 183 

William ....179, 181, 185 

Jones, David 2}2 

" Laura A 231,232 

" Sarah S 232 

Kennedy, Elizabeth 228 

Keyes, Abner 267 

Ezekiel 267 

Mary 266,267 

Mary S 267 

Moses 267 

Robert 267 

Solomon 267 

Kidder, Frederick 13 

Killinger, Catharine 230 

King, Ann 225 

" Josephine 225 

" Mary N 225 

" SallieK 225 

'' Walter 225 

Kingman, B 161 

Kingsbery, Joseph . • 39 

Kingsley, Lydia 25 1 

Mary 251 

Kiltredge, Rev. Abbott E. ..213,214 

Knapp, Mary 61 

Landess, Ruhma 230 

Lansing, Nicholas 1 65 

Lathrop, Mary 264 

" Temperance 95 

Thomas 264 

Leavens, Hannah 234 

Lociijord, Elizabeth 115 

" Thomas 115 



Lee, Alice M 2'J 

" Cecelia A 29 

" Mary E 29 

" William K... 29 

" Woodis 221 

Leonard, Hannah 129 

" Mehitable 129 

" Thomas 106, 118 

Lewis, Edmond 53 

James H 

Libby, Sarah E 242 

Linton, Ann 49, 51, 52 

" Elizabeth '52 

" Richard 49,51,52 

Livingston, Clarissa 18 

" William 18 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. ..158 

'* Stephen 158 

" Zilpha 158 

Loring, Wealthian 149, 151 

Lothrop, Rev. John 138 

Lowell, James R 162 

Lyon, George 136 

" Hannah 136 

Marley, Rev. Michael 225 

Marsh, Elizabeth 36, 39 

" George 36, 39 

" Mary 36, 39 

*« Onesiphorus 39 

'* Thomas 39 

Martin, Daniel G. 223 

'« Mrs. Daniel G 223 

" Mary 267 

'* Nannie C 223 

Marvin, Abijah P 52 

Mather, Cotton 144, 145 

May, Dorothy 137, 141 

" Hannah 235 

Mazelius, D 165 

Mead, Abiel P 268 

" Abner 268 

" E. S 203 

" Col. James 268 

" Jane M 2()7 

" John 268 

" Jonathan 268 

" Martin D 268 



202 



INDKX. 



Mead, Mary A 262, 268 

'' Timothy 268 

" William 268 

Melanson, Bclona 27 

' Alargaret 27 

Mellins, Capt 14 

Melville, Sir James 185 

" Margaret 185 

Melvin, Samuel 203 

Messin^er, Mary J 18 

Miller, John 241 

" Sally 230 

" Sarahs 241 

Millidge, Phines 78 

Thomas 78 

Minot, Martha 257 

Mitchell, Aon J 257 

" ChauuceyR 257 

«« Judge 203 

*' Justus 257 

" Martha..... 257 

Mix, Mary 260 

Mixter, Isaac 264 

" Mary L 264 

Moler, Adam 225-228, 230 

" Anne 227 

" Casper 227 

" Clement 227 

" David 228 

" Elizabeth . .225, 227, 228, 230 

" Frederic 227 

" George \V 227 

" Henry 227 

" Jacob 227 

" John 227,228 

'« Julia A 207, 224-228 

" Mary 227,228,230 

" Michael 227 

" Raleigh 227 

" Roda 227 

" Ruhama 227,228 

" Samuel 227 

'• Saiah E 228 

" Vandiver 225-230 

Mooar, Ann B 266 

" Priscilla 266, 267 

" Timothy 266 






Montcalm, Marquis de 74 

Moody, Caleb 32 

" Mary 94 

Morehouse, Charles 17 

" Hannah S 17 

•« Jane 19 

♦' John 16 

" Mary 82 

" Reuben 17 

Morgan, Abigail T 261, 262, 268 

James 262 

" Deacon Jasper 262 

Capt. John 262 

William A 262 

Capt. William 262 

William 262 

Morrel. Abraham 32 

Isaac 32, 33 

Jacob 32 

" John 32 

" Phebe 31,32 

Morrill, Isaac 10 

Morris, Abigail 234 

•' Amanda 236 

" Asa 235 

Rt. Rev. Benjamin W 212 

Bethiah P 234, 235 

Bethiah 235 

Charles 74, 79 

Chester 235 

Clara E. S 213, 236, 242 

Darius 2iS 

Dorothy 235 

Ebenezer 233, 235 

Edward 213, 233-236 

Eliza 236 

Elizabeth 233-235 

Ephraim ..103, 213, 235, 236 

Eunice 235 

Grace 233-235 

Grissie H 233 

Hannah 234,235 

IdaN. T..103, 148, 152, 2o7, 

213,237 

Isaac .... 213,233, 235, 236 

Jesse C... 23(. 

Jonathan.... 235 



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293 



Morris, Joseph 213, 235, 236, 242 

" Julia 236 

" Gov. Lewis 196 

" Margaret 233 

" Martha 233,235 

" Mary 235,236 

" Pamela 236 

" Pamela C 103,235,236 

•' -Polly 236 

" Pnscilia 235 

" Prudence 234 

" Robert H 183 

" Samuel 233 

" Sarah 235,236 

" Seymour 237 

" Seymour T 214 

" Susanna 234 

" Sylvester 236 

•' Thomas 233 

" Tyler Seymour.. 5, 103, 148, 
152, 160, 213, 237 .... 

Morrison, John 78 

Morton, Nathaniel 158 

Motley, J. L 90 

Moulton, Mary 236 

Mudge, Elvira 254 

Mullins, Alice 157, 1 59 

" Joseph 159 

" Prisciila 93, 156-161 

" William 156-159 

Murray, John 1 94 

McCarthy, Ann 171 

James 171 

" Margaret .171 

McCaughan, Rev. William J 215 

McCreary, David 231 

Eleanor P 231 

" Eliza. 212,231 

" Elizabeth C 231 

William 231 

McCullough, Margaret 28 

McGowan, Bessie 28 

McKay, Edward H 26 

" Janet B. H 26 

McLarren, Mary 18 

Sophia 19 

McLaughlin, Alice M. L 29 

Theresa 25 



McLaughlin, William 29 

McNeill, Caroline S 18 

John 18 

" Joseph 18 

Sophia S 28 

Nagers, John 67 

Nassawano, Laurence 67 

Neal, Anne 52 

Nesbitt, Anna 224 

Anne 223 

Benoni 225 

'• Catherine? 223,225 

" Catherine 223,224 

" Charles J 225 

" Clara 224 

Clarissa 224 

" Edward C 225 

" Elizabeth 225 

Fannie D 225 

" Frene W 223, 229 

" Jacob 207, 223-225 

" James C. 226 

" James F 226 

" Jane 224 

" John 207,223-225,228 

" John A 225 

" John E 226 

" Jonathan 223 

" Julia A.... 207, 224-226, 228 

" Kate H 226 

" Martha A. 103, 148, 152, 160, 
203, 207, 213, 226.... 

" Mary 223,225 

" Mary E 224 

" Nancy 223 

" Nathan 224 

Nathaniel . .207, 223, 225, 229 

Peter 223,224 

" Rachel M. C 225 

" Rebecca 224 

" Samuel 224 

" Sarah 224 

" Walter L 225 

" William B 225 

" William T 224 

Newcomb, Andrew 70 

Bathsheba 70, 98, 103 

" Desire 70 



294 



INDEX. 



Newcomb, Hannah 70 

" Mary 70 

Mercy 70 

Mercy S 70 

" Peter 70 

Sarah 70 

" Thomas 70 

'« William 70,98 

Newell, Marah B 1 54 

Newland, John 131 

Nichols, Sarah 58 

Nickerson, Emma 247 

Nourse, H. S 51 

Oakes, Henry 16 

Oliver, Dr. James 90 

" Mercy B 90 

" Sarah 90 

" Thomas 92 

Otis, Amos !03 

" James 73 

Pabodie, Anna. 156 

" Elizabeth . 1 50, 1 52, 1 54, 1 56, 

160 

«' Elizabeth A. 154, 156, 158, 

159, 160 

«' Frances 156 

«« Hannah 157 

" Isabel 155, 156 

«' John ...154, 155, 156, 157 

" Lydia 157 

" Mary 157 

" Martha 157 

" Mercy 157 

" Priscilla 157 

*' Rebecca 157 

'• Ruth 157,158 

Sarah 157 

" Thomas 156 

" William. 153, 154, 156-160 

Packard, Charlotte 161, 247 

" Deborah 161 

" Jonas 161 

" Mary 161 

" Mercy 161 

" Sarah 158 

" Simon 161 

" Zaccheus 161 



Packard, Zenas 161 

Page, Benjamin 36 

*' Cornelius 36 

" Ebeuezer 37 

" Elizabeth 36 

" Ephraim 36 

" Hannah 37, 38, 39 

" John , 11,36,39 

" Joseph 11, 36, 40 

" Jude 37,38 

" Judith 36, 37 

'• Martha 11, 37, 40 

" Mary 36 

" Mary (Marsh) 36, 39 

" Mercy 36 

'* Onesiphorus 36 

Pais:e, Lucius R 103, 178 

Paine, William 92 

Palmer, Grace = 255 

Martha 255, 256 

" William 98, 126, 255 

Parke, William 91 

Parker, Martha 37 

'' Nicholas 55 

" Phebe 10,11,12.37,38 

" Richard 55 

" Robert 83 

" Sarah 36, 83 

" Thomas 37, 84 

Parr, Governor 78 

Patterson, Florence M 26 

" James B 26 

I^aul, John 115 

Payson, W. W 16 

Peake, Betbiah 234, 235 

" Christopher 234 

" Hannah 1 234 

" Jonathan 234 

Perkins, Mary 161 

Perry, John 139 

Persinger, Catherine N 224 

Jacob 224 

«' Nannie C 224 

Sarah E... 224 

«' Smith 224 

Petty, Sarah 31, i2 

Phelan, Eva 230 



INDEX. 



295 



Phelan, William 229 

Phillips, Anne T. G 90 

Hannah 129 

John 90 

" 'Margaret W 90 

" Wendell 90 

William 90 

Pierce, E. W 154 

" John 142 

" Rebecca 105 

Pierpont, John 89 

Pierson, Catharine 231 

" David 231 

" Eleanor 231 

Pitts, Ebenezer 1 09 

Poole, Asa B 26 

" Birdie M 26 

" E. A 26 

" Florence M 26 

" John R 26 

" Capt. Jonathan 256 

" Mabel E 2G 

" Mary E. E 26 

" Miriam 26 

" William 128 

Pond. Thankful 244 

Popham, Judge 1 39 

Pope, Chas. H..39, 40, 43, 44, 48, 56, 

82, 174, 178 

Porter, Asahel 240 

" Susan 52 

Poulter, Elizabeth 265 

Pratt, Persis 118 

Prescott, Benjamin 258 

John 52 

Rebecca M 258 

W^illiam (Col.) 14, 47 

Preston, Rev. John 1 84 

Mrs. Martha 219 

Prince, Thomas 143 

Prindle, Mary R 240 

Nathan 240 

" Ruth 239-241 

Purdy, Eleanor A 82 

Putnam, E 148, 152, 160 

Pynchon, Mrs 87 

William 134 



Randolph, A. H 28 

Annie T 28 

" Guy A 23 

" Helen E 28 

Reed, Addie 27 

" Amaret 27 

'• Caleb 26 

" Charles 27 

" Daniel 229 

" Elizabeth T 26 

" Eva S 27 

" James 14 

" JosieM 27 

" Judson 27 

" Mary 250, 251 

" Minnie 27 

" Miriam 26 

" Pearl W 27 

" Percy C 27 

" Reatta 27 

" Relief 26 

" Robert 26 

" Sadie 27 

" Sarah S. T 26 

Remington, Ann 90 

" Jonathan 90 

Lucy B 90 

Rettenbury, Lovedy 248, 254 

Richards, Alice 146, 148, 151 

Ann 151 

Benjamin 151 

Hannah 151 

James 151 

John 151 

Joseph 151 

Mary 151 

Samuel 151 

Thomas !49, 151 

Wealthian 149, 151 

Richardson, Mary 240 

Richmond, Rev. William 209 

Rigg, Margaret 185 

" William 185 

Ricker, James 173,1 76-1 79 

Ring, Emma J. T 24 

" Henry Clay 24 

" Robert 32 



INDEX. 



Robbins, Abram 222 

" Clarissa B 19 

" Elmira 19 

Hannah 19,206.222 

" Harvey 19 

Jacob 19 

Roberts, Ephraim 39 

0. A 134 

Robinson, John 141, 142 

Rodney, Caesar 21 1 

Roeters, Abraham 197, 1 98 

" Christina 197, 198 

" Susanna 193 

Rogers, Abigail 1 54 

Ann 154 

" Ann C 152-155 

'« Ann E 225 

" Elizabeth. 150, 152, 154, 155, 

157, 160 

" Hannah.. 130, 148-150, 152, 

155, 160 

" John. .150, 152-155, 157, 160 

" John A 225 

" Joseph 153, 154 

Marah 154 

" Ruth 155 

Sarah 155 

" Thomas 150, 153, 154 

Rolfe, Daniel 219 

" Hannah 219 

Rossiter, Hugh 127, 136 

Jane 126-128, 136 

Rowell, Henry L 226 

'« Laura A 226 

Rowland, Dr. B 171 

Rev. Thomas 201, 205 

Ruggles, Ann W 69 

" Anna 69 

Anna B. 66 

" Bathsheba 70-82,98 

" Benjamin 68, 70 

Cynthia 82 

»' Edward 70 

" Elisha 69 

" Elizabeth 67, 71 

" Gilbert 82 

«' H. S 103 

" Hannah 67-70 



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«' Henry 67 

" Huldah 67 

John 65, 70, 71, 81 

Joseph 67-70, 78 

Lucy 68 

Martha 68, 71, 84 

Martha W 67-70 

Mary 65,67,93 

•♦ Mary C 64,66 

" Mary W 68, 70 

Nathaniel 67,70 

" Patience 08 

Richard.71,81, 82, 103, 112, 

148, 152, 160 

'« Samuel 65-70. 82-84 

Sarah 65, 67-70 

" Sophia 82 

" Susanna 70 

<' Thomas 64, 65-70, 82 

Timothy. 68-83, 93, 98, 103 

" Tryphena 82 

" Welthe ..82, 103, 112, 148, 

152, 160 

" Welthe H..71, 82, 152,-160. 

Ryarson, John 82 

Rycratt, Richard 1 94 

Sackett, Deborah.. 170, 171, 173, 177 

Elizabeth 175-177 

Elizabeth B...175, 176, 178 

Frances 177 

Hannah 177 

Hannah A. 173, 175, 176, 179 

Isabel 174, 175 

James 177 

John 174, 176, 177 

Joseph 177 

Capt. Joseph ..173-176, 178 
Judge Joseph. 173, 175, 176, 

179 

Mercy W 175 

Patience 176 

Richard 176, 177 

Samuel 176, 177 

Sarah B 174-177 

Simon 173-177 

Thomas 177 

William 176, 177 



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297 



Sackett, Abigail 176 

" Ann 176 

*' Anna 1 76 

Sadler, Anthony 30 

" Martha 30 

Salter, Abigail 58 

" Ann E 58 

" George 58 

Saltonstall, Nathaniel 35 

Sampson, John 158 

" Susanna 158 

Sanders, Hannah 17 

" James 39 

Sargent, Ruth 97 

Sarah 97 

»' William 97 

Saunders, Pauline 18 

Saunderson, 46 

Savage, James 10, 39 

Savary, A. W 73 

" Deidamia 21 

Sawtell, Ithamar B 20 

Sawyer, Thomas 52 

Schuyler, Alydia 1 89 

Arent 189 

Brant 189 

Catherine V. R 189 

Cornelia V. C 189 

Elizabeth S 189 

Gertrude 181, 187, 189 

Gysbert 189 

Johannes 189 

John 189 

Margaret 189 

Margaretta....l87. 189,191 

Peter 189 

Philip 189 

Philip P 187, 189, 191 

Sybella 189 

Scot, Euphemia 179, 181, 186 

" George 179, 185, 186 

" James 18b 

" Sir John 185 

" Margaret M 185 

'« Margaret R 185 

Scott, Addie 247 

" Charlotte E. T 247 



Scott, George V 247 

" H. Frank 247 

" Hattie E 247 

" Jennie E 247 

" Susie 247 

Searle, Azuba B 221 

'« Robert 221 

Seymour, Abel 239 

" Abigail 238 

«' Abigail H 238, 239 

" Almira 241 

" Amanda 242 

" Ame 239 

" Amos 239 

*' Anna 238 

AnnaB. C 242 

" Benjamin 242 

" Betsey B 241 

" Cerene M. A 242 

" Charity G 242 

Clara E 213,236,242 

Clarissa G 236, 241 

" Daniel 239 

" David 239 

" Ebenezer....236. 238-241 

" Elizabeth 237, 238 

" Emery T 242 

" Emily 242 

" Gideon 236, 238-241 

" Hannah 238, 241 

Hannah W 237, 238 

" Harriet L 242 

•' Henry N 242 

" Huldah C 241 

John 237 

*' Jonathan 238 

Lydia 238,239,241 

'• Marilla 2\2 

Mary 237 

«' Mary D 239 

" Mehitable H......238, 240 

" Mehitable 239 

Mercy 237,238 

Polly B 241 

" Rebecca 238 

Richard 236-241 

Ruth 241 



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Seymour, Ruth P 239-24 1 

Sala 241 

Salmon 236,241 

«' Samuel 23S 

" Sarah 24! 

Sarah E.L. 242 

" Selah 241 

Capt. Stephen. 236,238,239 

Stephen 239-241 

Susan H 242 

Sylvia 241 

Thankful 239, 241 

" Thomas 237 

William B 242 

" Zachariah 237 

Zadock 239 

Shaw, Abigail 118. 127 

Abraham 110, 117, 118 

Alice ' 117,118 

Benjamin HO, 118-123 

Benoni 118 

Ebenezer 118-123 

Elizabeth 118 

George US 

Hannah. 106, 110.111,118,119, 

123 

John 110, 117, 118 

Jonathan 117-122 

Joseph .118 

Lydia US 

Mary 117, 118 

Martha 117 

Nicholas US 

Samuel 118, 120, 121 

Sarah 118, l-'O, 122 

Susannah... 11 8, 120, 122, 123 

Sherman, Abbie T 262 

Abigail T. M. 26 1,262, 268 

" Andrew T 261 

" Anna M 262 

Col. Charles.. 21 6, 260-262 

" Charles A 261 

" Charles J 262 



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David A. 260 

Edward 256 

Edwin D 262 



Sherman, Edwin M 263 

Eliza T 261 

" Eliza M 262 

Elizabeth. 255-257, 259,260 
Elizabeth H.. 257, 258, 260 

Elizabeth R 261 

Elizabeth W 255-257 

' Ephraim 256 

Fannie B 262 

" Grace . . .255 

" Harriet 260,261 

Helen M 262, 268 

Henry 260-262 

" Isaac 259 

JamesM. 216, 262, 263, 268 
«' James T. 216, 261, 262, 268 

Jane T 261 

" Janet T 260,261 

Jessie T 2b2 

John 255, 256, 259,260 

Capt John.. 216, 255, 256, 

258, 260-262 

«' Lieut. John ..216, 260-262 

John T 261,262 

" Jonathan 256 

" Joseph .216, 255-258. 260- 

262 

'* Josiah 257 

" Margarets 261 

" Martha 255-257,259 

Martha E ...263 

Martha E. T. 207, 215, 263 

'' Martha M 257 

Martha P 255, 256 

" Maria 260 

«' Mary 255 

Mary E. F...216, 262. 268 

" Mary F 263 

" Mehitable 257, 259 

'« Mehitable W 256, 258 

" Nathaniel 256, 257 

Oliver 259 

" Rebecca 257,259 

" Rebecca A 259, 260 

Rebecca C 257 

Rebecca P 258 

Robert T 261 



INDEX. 



299 



Sherman, Hon. Roger. 216, 258, 260- 

262 

Roger. 207, 216, 257, 259- 

261 

" Sarah 255, 256 

" Sophias 260 

" Walter 261 

" William 216, 256-263 

" William W 261 

Shonnard, Frederick 1 S8 

Shorthouse, Sarah 232 

Shumway, Lavinia 55 

Simmons, Mary 159, 161 

Skiff, Bathsheba 97, 98, 99 

'• Benjamin 99 

" James 96. 97, 99 

" Marienna 99 

" Mary 97,99 

" Nathan 99 

" Nathaniel 99 

•' Sarah 99 

" Stephen 99 

Small, Augusta 26 

" Colonel 77,79 

" Eliza T 27 

" John 27 

" Julia A 27 

«' Welthe R 27 

Smith, Aaron 17 

" Abigail 93, 98, 132 

" Caroline 18 

" Deidamia 27 

" Ebenezer 132 

" Elizabeth 18 

" Eva 27 

Gurtruyd 166 

" John 18, 27, 132 

" Joshua 21, 168 

" Hannah 132 

" Lemuel 132 

" Louise 18 

" Lucy 18 

" Lydia 246 

" Marie 17 

" Mary 18, 132 

" Mary G 172 

" Mary J. M....^ 18 



Smith, Rev. Moses 207 

" Mercy 70 

" Thomas 98 

" William 18 

Smyth, John 139, 141 

Snell, Abigail 158 

" Anna 158 

" Ebenezer 158 

" Josiah 158 

" Sarah 158 

" Zachariah 158 

Snow, Anna 171 

" Joshua 171 

Snyder, Abraham 166. 167, 168 

" Ann Isabella 171 

*' AnnS..... 167. 170, 171,174 
" Barbara A. H.. 166-169, 171 

" Catherine 170 

" Catharine H... 166, 170, 172 

" Catrina 167, 170 

" Christina 167 

" Christina R. J 185, 201 

" Deborah 171 

" Evelina C. 3, 25, 103,148,152, 
160, 163, 171, 201, 205-208 

" Gertrude 167, 169 

Harmanus 166-169 

" Hendrick '167-172 

" Dea. Hendrick.. 165-171, 201 

" Henry 170 

" Col. James 171 

" Johannes 165, 167 

« ' Margrietye 167 

" Peter 166-168 

" William.. 166, 168, 170, 171, 

174, 201 

" William S.170, 171, 185, 201 

Southworth, Alice C 143, 148 

" Constant 153 

Edward 143 

Spooner, W. W 188 

Staats, Elizabeth 1 89 

Stacy, Ann 40, 42 

Standish, Myles 1 46, 153, 158 

Staples, Rev. John 2b0 

Sophia 2b0 

" Susanna P 260 



300 



INDEX. 



Starr, Francis P 24 

Margaret I 24 

Start, George 13,16 

Margaret G 17 

Marie 17 

Mary 13 

Moses 17 

Relief 16 

Steadman, Emm a J 24 

James 24 

" Robert 177 

Stearns, John 264 

" Mary L 264 

Steele, John 237 

Stepliens, Ebenezer 1 33 

Stevens, Elizabeth 9 

" John 9,182,183 

Story, Ann 40, 42 

Stowers, Amy 48 

" Elizabeth 48 

" John 53 

" Nicholas 48 

Stringham, Ann 167, 170, 171, 174 

Catherine 170 

" Deborah S 170, 177 

'« Hannah. 172, 173 

«« Col. James. 170, 173, 174, 

177 

«' Mary C 173 

" Peter 170, 172, 173 

«' Samuel 170, 172, 173 

Stronach, 80 

Stuyvesant, Elizabeth 175 

" Peter 190 

Sweetman, Elizabeth 257 

Sylvester, Rev. Dr 211 

Symonds, Dorothy oO 

John 60 

Talbot, Addie A 248 

Benson A 249 

Betsey 246 

Carrie E 247 

Charlotte. 245 

Charlotte E 247 

Charlotte P 245 

Daniel 245 

Dorothy 244 



Talbot, Ebenezer 135,215,245,246,248 

" Edward 244 

" Elizabeth 245 

" Elizabeth F.... 135, 245-247 

" Elizabeth \V 244-246 

" Ella E. 135, 161, 215, 247,254 

" Emma N 247 

" Enoch 245 

" Experience 245 

" George 215,243-246,248 

" George B 247 

" Hannah 245 

" FxannahC. F 243, 244 

" Hannah F 135, 246 

" Hannah L. J 247 

" Hattie G 243 

" Henry A. 135,161,215,247,248 

" Henry H 247 

" Capt. Jared 109 

" Jedidiah 245,246 

" Jessica H. 135, 161, 207, 215, 249 

" Jerusha 245 

" Josiah 245 

" Joel 135, 215. 246. 248 

♦' Joel F...135, 161. 215, 247, 

248, 254 

" Lucile 249 

" Mary 243, 245 

" Mary N 243 

" Mary T 244, 245 

" Peter 215,243-246,248 

" Rachel 245, 246 

" Ruth 245 

" Sarah 245 

" Susan A. C. 135, 161, 247,248 

" William 245 

Taylor, Elizabeth 26 

" Jannet 260, 261 

" John 261 

Margaret S 261 

Rachel 221 

Temple, Elizabeth B 90 

TerriU, Anne 182 

" William 182, 183 

Thatcher, Elias 139 

Thayer, B. 161 

Deborah 161 



INDEX. 



301 



Thew, Abraham 169 

" Theunis 169 

Thompson, Elizabeth 94, 95 

" Phillis 94 

" William 94 

Thorne, Annie S 26 

" Eugenia 26 

" Frederick W 26 

" Mary E 26 

" R.J 26 

" Sarah S. T 26 

Thornton, John W 144 

Thurston, Hannah 55 

Tilley, Elizabeth 100-104 

" Elizabeth S. T 28 

" H. C 28 

'• John 101, 102, !04 

Timpany, Clarissa 19 

ElmiraR 19 

H.iines 19 

" Hannah 19 

" Jane 26 

" John 19 

" Major 19 

«« Margaret 19 

" Robert 19 

Sarah J 19 

Tisdale, Israel 131 

Titus, Charles 17 

Eliza W 17 

Henry 19 

Isaac 17 

James 17 

Jemima 17 

Lucy 18 

Marie 18 

MaryT 17 

Relief 17 

Reuben 18 

Sarah B 19 

Tobey, Samuel 115 

Tolman, Hannah 1 36 

Mary 258 

" Thomas 136 

Tomlinson, Isabel 212 

Townsend, Experience 1 29 

TowHsend, Nathaniel 1 32 



Trent, William 193 

Trew, Deborah 212 

Trippe, Rose 57, 58 

Tubbs, Samuel 114 

Tucker, Alice W 203, 209 

" Annie 28 

" Ann 1 203, 205 

" Augustus J . . . . 203, 208, 209 

" Benjamin 10 

'' Benoni 10 

" Bessie A 29 

" Beza 94 

" Catharine C. 203, 205, 21 1,212 

" Cecelia A 29 

" Charles. 19, 23, 82, 103, 148, 
152, 160 201, 205-208, 

213, 215 

Charles F 29 

Charles H 28 

Charles J 203 

Charles R 29 

Charles W 203 

David 19 

Ebenezer 11 

Eliza 27 

Ellen L 94 

Elizabeth 10, 14, 272 

Elizabeth G 9, 11, 31, 32 

Elizabeth S 9, 28 

Ellen L 94 

Elsie Mae 29 

Emily 28 

Evelina C. S..25, 103, 148, 
152, 160, 163, 171, 199, 

202-207 

Frank Edwin 29 

George H 29 

G. J 173 

Gilbert J 29 

Gilbert R'^.25, 103, 148, 152, 
160, 171, 199-208.... 

Gilbert R" 203, 208 

Hannah 14, 17 

Herman D 29 

Ida Nesbitt..l03, 148, 152, 

207, 213, 237 

Jabez 10 




INDEX. 



cer, James 9, 10, 11 

" Jessica H. T..135, 161, 207 

215, 249 

" Johannah D...11, 12, 16, 41 

" John 10, 11, 30 

" John C 29 

" Joseph. 10-1 2, 14, 16,23, 37, 

201, 205-208, 213, 215 

" Julia A. D 29 

" Lillian B 203,209 

" Margaret 27 

" Martha A. N...103, 148, 152, 

160, 203, 207, 213, 226 
" Martha E .... 207, 215, 263 

" Martha W 13 

" Mary 10, 13, 14, 17 

" Morri';..9-12, 16, 23, 30, 31, 

201, 205-208, 213, 215 
Capt. Moses. .11-16. 23, 41, 

201, 205-208, 213, 215 

" Parker ■. 14 

" Phebe 11, 14 

" Phebe P 10-12, 37 

Relief 16 

" Reliet A 23 

" Relief F.... 14, 16,22, 23,47 
" Reuben.. .12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 

22, 23, 47, 201, 205-208, 

213,215 

" Samuel 11 

«' Sarah 10, 14 

" Sarah S 26 

" Susan 13 

Welthe A 25 

" Welthe E 29 

" Welthe R. 19, 23, 29, 82, 103, 

148, 152, 160, 201, 203, 

206; 212, 222, 2i2.... 

«♦ William Reuben 27 

" William Ruggles. 29, 135,160, 

207, 215 

" William S. S..103, 148, 152, 

160,203,207, 213,215,226 

Turell, Anna B 244 

" Daniel 244 

" Mary ...241, 245 

Turnbull, Amira D 25 



Turnbull, Annie F 25 

Charles 18, 24, 26 

Emma I 24 

Ernst H 24 

Evelina 24 

Forsythe 18 

George 24 

Grace F 24 

Helen B 25 

Herbert R 24 

Isabella B 24 

John B 25 

Joshua 18 

Julia C 24 

Julia M 24 

Katharine H. 18 

Laliah D 24 

Margaret 25 

Margaret B 24 

Margaret J 24 

Mary A . W 24 

Mary W. D 24 

Pamelia 24 

Relief Ann 23 

Relief Burns 18 

Sarah E 24 

Wallace R 24 

Welthe 1 25 

William B ^. 23 

William Wallace '. 24 

Turner, Lydia S 241 

'« Stephen 241 

Twedy, Dorothy 1 34 

Tyler, Catherine 223 

Tyng, Mercy 90 

Rebecca 90 

Van Cortlandt, Anne 1 88 

Amelia L 187 

Catherine 181,187,188 
Cornelia. 187, 188.189 

Elizabeth 188 

Gertrude .... ..188 

Gertrude S.181, 187, 

189 

Gysbert. 188 

Jacob 187 

Johannes 187 



INDEX. 



303 



Van Cortlaadt, John 1 88 

«' Margaret 188 

" Mary 187, 188 

" Oliver 188 

" Oloff S..181,186, 187 

" Philip. 188 

" Sophia 187 

" StephanuslSl, 186-189 

«' Stephen ;...188 

Van Gorder, E. D 203 

Van Oden, Ghretie 169 

Peter 169 

Van Rensselaer, Catharine 1 89 

" Kilian 190 

Van Slichtenhorst, Brandt A. 189, 190 
" Margareta.186,189 

191 .. 

Verbryck, Rev. Samuel 1 65 

Vinton, J. A 161 

Wade, Jonathan 58 

*' Prudence 58 

Wadell, Mary 243 

Wadsworth, Dea. Peleg 158 

" Gen. Peleg 158 

Zilpha 158 

Walden, Mary 249, 250. 25 1 

Waldo, Cornelius 94 

Hannah C 94 

Wallier, Q^t. Elijah Ill 

Walley, Salley 90 

Waliis, Isaac 21 

" William 21 

Walsh. Alice M 203, 209 

Mary 209 

" William 209 

Ward, G. A 73 

Warn, Charles 18 

'« Elizabeth 18 

Warren, Abigail 55 

Daniel 61,63,64 

Elizabeth 63 

" Grace 63 

John 61, 62, 63 

" Joshua 63 

" Lydia 61 

" Margaret 62,63 

Mary 55, 61, 63, 64 



Warren, Mary B. 61, 63 

" Sarah 63 

" Susanna 63 

" Thomas 21 

Warwick, Sarah 25 

Washington, George 1 89 

" Mary 214 

Waters, Abigail 52 

Alice 25 

Amaret 25 

Amaret D 25 

Ann L 49 

Benjamin 25 

Benjamin P 25 

Cassie M. D 25 

Daniel 51 

Edith 25 

Elizabeth 25 

Elsie 25 

Ephraim 51 

Jacob. , 51 

Johanna 51 

John 25 

Joseph 51 

Lawrence 49, 51, 52 

Mary 51 

Mary 25 

Rachel 51 

Rebecca.. 46, 49, 51 

Samuel 51, 52 

Sarah 50 

Sarah W 25 

Stephen 51 

Theresa M 25 

Thomas 25 

Watson, Brooke 79 

Webster, John 12 

Welde, Daniel 56 

Wellington, Benjamin 257 

Elizabeth S 257 

Mehitable 256-258 

Roger 257 

Wells, Richard 30 

" Thomas 33 

Wendell, Jacob 90 



" Margaret 



90 



Mary J 90 



304 



INDEX. 



Wendell, Oliver 90 

" Sarah 90, 95 

Sarah A 90 

Wentworth, Forrest A 248 

" Hattie G T 248 

Henry F 248 

Wentzel, Annie 29 

Weston, Thomas 142 

Wheeler, Altie 55 

Wheelock, Ithamar 13 

Susan 13 

Whetmore, Almira 24 1 

" Ambrose 241 

Whitcomb, Abigail 49, 50 

" Catharine 49 

*• Damaris 50 

" David 50 

" Deborah 50 

" Eunice 50 

'• Frances 49 

*« Hezekiah 50 

'• Joanna 50 

•' Job 49 

♦« John 49, 52 

« Jonathan 14, 49, 50 

'* Josiah 46,49-51 

" Mary 45, 46, 49, 50 

'« Rebecca W 46, 49, 50 

" Robert 49 

White, Ann 93 

" Benjamin 69, 93, 95 

*• Frances 93 

" Hannah 93 

" John 69, 92, 93 

" Mary 68, 69, 70, 93 

'< Joseph 69 

" Susanna 93, 95 

Whitefield, George 1 88 

Whitehead, Bishop 211 

Whitmer, Anna 229 

Barbara 223,229 

" Catharina 229 

'' Elizabeth 229 

" Frena 229 

" Frene 223 

John 229 

" Magdalen 229 



Whitmer, Maria 229 

" Michael 223,229 

" Peter 229 

'« Ubrich 229 

Whitmore, Ann 44, 48 

" Francis 48 

" John 48 

" Mary 48 

" Thomas 48 

Whitney, Levi 21 

Wilberforce, Samuel 144 

Wilbour, Samuel 105 

Shadrach 105 

Rebecca 105, 110, 116 

Wilbur, Aaron 146 

♦' Ann 116 

" Benjamin 117 

" Eleazer 117 

" Eliza 17 

Hannah 117 

" John 117 

Joseph 116, 117 

Mary 117 

♦' Sergt. Samuel 115-117 

" Sarah 117 

Shadrach 116, 117 

Wild, Charlotte P 161, 247 

" Elijah 247 

" John 247 

" Joseph 161,247 

" Susan A. C. 135, 161, 247,248 

" William 247 

Wilkinson, Elizabeth 256 

Willard, Mary 46 

'« Moses 46 

'' Simon (Maj.) 45,46 

Williams, Anna 129 

Elizabeth 129 

" James 133 

Col. Joseph 89 

Mary 129 

Samuel 129 

" Seth 129, 131 

Willis, Joseph 136 

'« Lydia 129 

" Sarah 129 

Wilson, Catherine N. P 224 



INDEX. 



305 



Wilson, Jacob 224 

'« Mark 224 

" Thomas 169 

Wiltshire, Richard 194 

Wincob, John 142 

Wing, John 98 

Winship, Edward 256 

Elizabeth 255-257 

Winslow, Ebenezer 114 

Edward ..146 

" Jonathan 97 

Ruth S 97 

Wiswall, John 81 

Winthrop, Ann D 90 

E B. T 90 

" Jane B 90 

John (Gov.).. 47, 85, 90, 

127, 255 

" John S 90 

Robert C 90 

" Thomas L 90 

Wiswell, Mrs 150 

Withington, Ehzabeth . . 135, 244-246 

" Henry 244, 245 

" Philip 244, 245 

" Richard 244,245 



Withington, Thankful P 244 

William 135. 245 

Wolcott, Roger 143 

Woodbridge, Ann 84 

" Benjamin 83, 84 

" Dorothy 84 

John 68,83,84,92 

Lucy 83, 84, 90 

" Martha 67, 68, 84 

Mary 84 

'« Mercy 68 

" Sarah 83, 84 

Thomas 84 

Timothy 84 

Woodruff, Hannah 237 

Matthew 237 

Woodworth, .Anne 69 

Woolson, Captain 13 

" Martha 13 

Wright, Jonathan 172 

" Mary 221 

" Richard 91 

Wyer, Richard 21 

Wyman, Thomas B 82 

Yale, W. H 203 

Yeoman, John R 169 



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